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31/3/2013
Controversial
geoengineering projects that may be used to cool the planet must be approved by world governments to reduce the danger of catastrophic accidents, British scientists said.
Met Office researchers have called for global ...
14/1/2013
Clutches are in. Red is the new black. A Korean rapper's cantering dance has been trending since August. Any number of lists promise the hot trends of 2013. But where to get hip to what's in vogue with climate change this year?
The Daily ...
22/10/2012
An international meeting on biodiversity has called for more science-based information, the closure of knowledge gaps, and increased precaution, in the emerging fields of synthetic biology and
geoengineering (climate engineering).
Two ...
17/10/2012
As controversy mounts over the Guardian's revelations that an American businessman conducted a massive ocean fertilisation test, dumping around 100 tonnes of iron sulphate off Canada's coast, it has emerged the Canadian government may have known ...
16/10/2012
A private company has conducted what is being described as the world’s biggest
geoengineering experiment off Canada’s west coast, dumping tonnes of iron into the ocean that may have triggered an artificial plankton bloom up to 10,000 square ...
15/10/2012
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 July, a Guardian investigation can reveal.
Lawyers, ...
16/8/2012
What if someone wanted to deploy a massive project to try to reverse climate change today? Perhaps some researchers wanted to spray sulfur particles into the stratosphere to reflect away some of the sun's energy, cooling the Earth in an attempt ...
30/5/2012
I've got to admit I'm not the world's biggest fan of
geoengineering, and I've said so quite publicly. The idea is that if we fail to cut back greenhouse gas emissions and the planet's temperature soars to potentially dangerous levels, we'll have ...
19/4/2012
Researchers working on a technology they say could stop global warming want the government to keep it out of private hands, a lead investigator said this week.David Keith, a Harvard University professor and an adviser on energy to ...
1/12/2011
More research on the risks and governance of
geoengineering the planet's climate by reflecting sunlight into space is needed, a grouping of science bodies and a green NGO have said, as the end of the first week of UN climate talks ...
3/10/2011
Political opposition to technologies that could artificially cool the planet is in full swing. A field test of
geoengineering, planned for October in Sculthorpe, UK, has been postponed for six months. Meanwhile, the European Parliament has passed ...
29/7/2011
Processed and fast food is increasingly linked to a range of health and environmental problems
Drought and water shortages stalk Eritrea's refugee camps Public sector should develop GM crops for seed companies, says leading researcher ...
27/11/2010
The talks that are meant to fix the world's climate resume on Monday for a two-week meeting in Cancún, Mexico's top beach resort. Almost 200 national governments are participating, and their objective is to agree a successor to the 1997 Kyoto ...
4/11/2010
Back in the 1970's, Chiffon Margarine ran a TV commercial with the tagline "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature' (the goddess in question wasn't happy that she mistook the margarine for real butter). In real life, scientists have learned that ...
30/10/2010
A senior House Democrat from Tennessee issued the first congressional report on
geoengineering Friday, just as delegates from 193 nations approved a
ban on such research under a global biodiversity treaty.
The debate over whether humans ...
26/10/2010
Delegates to the world summit on biodiversity here are calling for a moratorium on climate engineering research, like the idea of putting huge mirrors in outer space to reflect some of the sun's heating rays away from the planet. Climate ...
25/10/2010
Delegates to the world summit on biodiversity here are calling for a moratorium on climate engineering research, like the idea of putting huge mirrors in outer space to reflect some of the sun's heating rays away from the planet.Climate ...
20/10/2010
Environmental groups want a U.N. conference on biodiversity in Japan to
ban geoengineering as way to mitigate climate change Image: Image courtesy rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org
Delegates from 193 nations are meeting in Nagoya, Japan, ...
18/10/2010
Next week's meeting of the 193-nation Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Nagoya, Japan, will tackle such controversial issues as funding for the Global Environment Facility, hard-to-reach biodiversity targets, and controls on the access ...
23/9/2010
Feed one set of assumptions into a climate model, and filling the Earth's upper atmosphere with levitating nano-particles seems like a reasonable way to rein in the worst effects of climate change. Feed in other assumptions, and the Asian and ...
21/9/2010
Nobody wants to be a defeatist, but considering the rate at which nations are reducing emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases -- which is to say very slowly, if at all -- it's not unreasonable to begin thinking of what else the world might ...
24/5/2010
Scientists announced the creation of first self-replicating synthetic life form last Friday, and a few hours later, a United Nations science advisory body meeting here urged countries to take a strong precautionary approach to avoid release of ...
14/5/2010
Campaigners have criticised plans for a sea trial of cloud-whitening technology, funded by Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
A US-based research body, Silver Lining, which has received $300,000 from Mr Gates, is developing machines to ...
17/12/2009
When Victor Smetacek and his colleagues cruised to the Southern Ocean in January 2009, they hoped to launch straight into pouring ten tons of iron sulphate into the waters below. Instead they spent days on board cranking out a risk assessment of ...
17/11/2009
At least half the planet must be protected if humanity is to survive the next century, declared conservationists at the conclusion of 9th World Wilderness Congress on Friday, Nov. 13.
"That is what the science said, this is what many ...