climate engineering
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Amazon Is Helping Researchers Study How to Dim the Sun
Computer processors across Amazon Web Services recently hummed into gear to create 30 simulations of what Earth could look like by the middle of this century. Normally, climate models run on supercomputers. But this effort on Amazon’s servers represents one of the first attempts to do modelling on the cloud and could revolutionise how modelling…
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Under a White Sky Asks if We Can Fix Nature — or if We Even Should
In her 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Sixth Extinction, New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert explored how humanity has driven scores of species to extinction. In her new follow-up, Under a White Sky, the journalist seeks solutions to the havoc we’ve wrought.