global warming
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How Can Scientists Cool The Earth?
Ideas to combat climate change by hacking Earth’s climate to make it cooler – “geoengineering” – have been around for decades. From putting physical barriers in the outer atmosphere to reflect the sun, to using chemicals such as sulphur injected into the atmosphere to mimic the cooling effect of volcanic eruptions – what are the…
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Antarctica Just Plopped A One Trillion Tonne Iceberg Into The Ocean
As expected, an iceberg half the size of Jamaica has finally cut itself loose from Antarctica’s Larsen C Ice Shelf. Dubbed A68, the 5,800 square km chunk of ice one of the biggest ever recorded — but what happens now, both to the iceberg and the ice shelf, is anyone’s guess.
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Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Has Been Valued At A Whopping $56 Billion
With the Great Barrier Reef under unprecedented environmental stress, a new report is raising the alarm in terms of its potential economic loss. Valued at $56 billion, the largest living structure on Earth is now deemed “too big to fail”.
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Trump To Mayor Of ‘Drowning’ Island: Don’t Worry About Sea Level Rise
Virginia’s Tangier Island is drowning. It’s accessible only by boat, besieged by both sinking land and rising sea, and has shrunk to one-third the size it was in 1850. On Wednesday, President Trump called its mayor, James Eskridge, to say not to worry about sea level rise.