Solar engineering is designed to reflect some of the Sun's ray back into space. John Crouch/Moment via Getty Imgaes The only known method able to quickly arrest this temperature rise is climate ...
As the Earth inches closer to 2°C of average warming above pre-industrial levels, some scientists aren’t just interested in how to cut emissions. They’re also interested in how to buy the planet more ...
A study reports that scattering sunlight-reflecting particles in the atmosphere -- a theoretical form of climate engineering known as 'stratospheric aerosol injection' -- has potential to slow rapid ...
Anthropogenic climate change has led to sea level rise and increasingly extreme weather events, including droughts, floods, and heatwaves. Climate change threatens oceanic and terrestrial ecosystems ...
Climate change is gaining prominence as a political and public priority. But many ambitious climate action plans foresee the use of climate engineering technologies whose risks are insufficiently ...
Shivani Dharanipragada ‘25, is a computer science and economics major and was a 2022-23 environmental ethics fellow with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. As Earth’s climate ...
The U.S. National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine have recently recommended an expansive federal research effort into climate engineering techniques. These proposed interventions, like ...
For a couple decades, following along with climate engineering discussions could occasionally induce some déjà vu. The idea of intentionally messing with the climate system in order to counteract some ...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the scientific body of the United Nations, mandated to study climate change, defines climate engineering as “deliberately altering the climate ...
As the latest contribution from UNESCO, the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology’s endeavour to study climate engineering technologies is timely as the research, ...
The Nigerian Academy of Engineering has emphasised the need to deploy a multidisciplinary approach to mitigate the impact of climate change on the environment. The NAEng also recommended reduction or ...