Tag: Geoengineering

  • Nation & World

    An umbrella to combat warming

    Harvard’s Keutsch Research Group is working on a controversial idea that might someday be our best hope against climate change: stratospheric aerosol injection.

    6 minutes
    Frank Keutsch stand is a thermal vacuum chamber
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    Mitigating the risk of geoengineering

    To halt the rise of global temperatures, Harvard researchers are looking at solar geoengineering, which would inject light-reflecting sulfate aerosols into the stratosphere to cool the planet.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Climate engineering: In from the cold

    Harvard Professor David Keith says that two new reports by the National Academy of Sciences are likely to boost a deeper look at possible geoengineering options for climate engineering.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Geoengineering: Opportunity or folly?

    Scholars on opposite sides of geoengineering debated the climate change strategy’s potential — pitfalls and benefits — this week at the Science Center.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A notion to cool the skies

    An international regulatory framework is needed to govern possible research and deployment of engineering approaches to counter climate change, an authority on environmental law says.

    3 minutes
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    Cautious geohacking

    By tailoring geoengineering efforts by region and by need, a new model promises to maximize the effectiveness of solar radiation management while mitigating its potential side effects and risks.

    3 minutes
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    Expert: Lift taboo on Earth engineering

    University of Calgary Professor David Keith calls for investment in geoengineering research as part of the search for solutions to climate change.

    5 minutes