CIA backs $630,000 scientific study on certain geoengineering strategies
The Central Intelligence Agency is funding a scientific study that will investigate whether humans could use geoengineering to alter Earth's environment and stop...
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Monday, July 22nd, 2013
Sunday, December 2nd, 2012
Geo-engineering wins scant enthusiasm at UN climate talks
DOHA, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Cheap, short-cut ideas to cool the planet such as shading sunlight are failing to win support from U.N. delegates looking to improve on the slow...
Thursday, October 18th, 2012
Rogue geoengineer's ocean field test condemned
Frustration has bubbled up about the actions of a rogue climate hacker. Independent geoengineer Russ George has reportedly attempted to fertilise a patch of ocean in the...
Tuesday, October 16th, 2012
World's biggest geoengineering experiment 'violates' UN rules
A controversial American businessman dumped around 100 tonnes of iron sulphate into the Pacific Ocean as part of a geoengineering scheme off the west coast of Canada in...
Thursday, May 17th, 2012
British team cancels geoengineering experiment
A U.K. project that is examining the feasibility of geoengineering the Earth's climate to reduce global warming will no longer involve an outdoor experiment that was...
Friday, November 12th, 2010
Researchers suggest rock-burning, sea-zapping geoengineering could cut CO2
Common minerals and electric currents that suck carbon dioxide out of the sea could be allies in the fight against climate change
Adding iron to ocean would backfire, algae study suggests
Fertilizing the oceans with iron - a tactic that "geoengineers" have proposed to fight global warming - could inadvertently spur the growth of toxic microbes
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
Proposed biodiversity pact bars 'climate-related geoengineering'
ScienceInsider has obtained draft text from negotiators at the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Nagoya, Japan, in regards to a proposed bar on geoengineering...
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
House Science Committee endorses geoengineering research
It's just the next stage in the mainstreaming of geoengineering: Now the House Committee on Science, chaired by Bart Gordon, has released a report supporting further...
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
Scientists consider whether to cause global cooling
Almost anywhere you turn these days, you are bound to hear a dire prognosis for climate change and the planet's rising temperatures. Well, if those aren't...
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
Computer models: All-out geoengineering still would not stop sea level rise
Mimicking volcanoes by throwing particles high into the sky. Maintaining a floating armada of mirrors in space . Burning plant and other organic waste to make charcoal...
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