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Encasing old buildings in cheap plastic packaging mesh can keep them upright for long enough for those inside to escape.
The publication of a hefty two-volume report on geoengineering by the US National Research Council represents a marked shift in the global debate over how to respond to global warming. To date, the debate…
Some people might argue that the greatest moral challenge of our time is serious enough to justify deliberately tampering with our climate to stave off the damaging effects of global warming. Geoengineering…
AUSTRALIA 2025: How will science address the challenges of the future? In collaboration with Australia’s chief scientist Ian Chubb, we’re asking how each science discipline will contribute to Australia…
This is a transcript of a speech given at the British Science Festival in Newcastle on September 12. It’s always a pleasure to speak at the British (Science) Association, but there are two special reasons…
The words “environmentalism” and “military” are not typically found in the same sentence. Yet ideas about our vulnerability to environmental change are directly linked to military plans for a third world…
Researchers at the University of Bristol created a model to test the benefits of cooling ocean temperatures for coral reefs…
This week, carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere finally crossed the 400 parts-per-million mark. The last time that happened was 3-5 million years ago during the Pliocene epoch, several million…
International climate change negotiations have not been successful. As Richard SJ Tol stated at the beginning of the 2012 Doha talks, “[h]aving flogged, ever harder for 18 years, the dead horse of legally…
The intensity and frequency of bush fires and firestorms around the globe, including recently in Australia, is a growing worry. Under conditions where mean land temperatures have increased by ~1.5 degrees…
A British Columbian fishing community has drawn almost universal condemnation after dumping 100 tonnes of iron rich dust into the ocean to stimulate a plankton bloom, in an effort to restore salmon numbers…
Marine cloud brightening: it’s a concept that has been floated in climate engineering discussions for some time. But what are the moral implications of this geoengineering technology, and how likely is…
This week’s 5.3 magnitude earthquake that struck near Moe in Victoria’s brown-coal mining region of the La Trobe Valley brings to mind the 5.6 magnitude quake of 1989 in another coal-mining heartland…
Inventors have long been protecting their ideas by filing patent applications on new technologies. But is it appropriate for researchers or companies to own the intellectual property rights to climate-altering…
Researchers at the University of Washington have found that a proposed engineering solution for climate change would have…
A lack of global action to combat climate change is forcing scientists to explore measures that might have been considered unethical a decade ago. With carbon dioxide emissions tracking at the high end…
What if the world left it too long to take action on global climate change? Is there a way we could somehow cool the planet before an environmental crisis occurs? Geo-engineering is a potential course…
In the past few years, there has been growing interest in geo-engineering our climate. Geo-engineering means making sometimes planetary-scale physical or chemical changes to alter the amount of heat coming…
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Director, Centre for Climate Repair, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Engineering Dynamics and Vibration, University of Cambridge
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Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
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Research Associate, University of Cambridge
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Professor and Scott Presidential Chair in Environmental Science and Engineering, Colorado State University
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Professor of Global Environmental Governance, Wageningen University
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Assistant Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Indiana University
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Professor of Environmental Law, University of Tasmania
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Research scientist, CSIRO
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Research Lead, Carbon Dioxide Removal, CSIRO
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Presidential Fellow in Environment, University of Manchester
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Assistant Director of the Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter
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James Martin Fellow, Oxford Martin School, Environmental Change Institute and Institute for Science Innovation and Society, University of Oxford
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PhD Scholar in Climate Governance, Australian National University
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Professorial Fellow, Australian-German Climate and Energy College, The University of Melbourne