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Could helium-filled aerial turbines be the answer to humanity's reliance on fossil fuels?
By covering Greenland's melting glaciers with reflective blankets one scientist hopes to reverse global warming.
By covering Greenland's melting glaciers with reflective blankets one scientist hopes to reverse global warming.
Using Salt Flares the Discovery team test if it is possible to seed or even create Marine Stratocumulus Clouds. These clouds could help reflect the suns rays and therefore combat global warming.
Mark Hodges has a radical yet simple idea for swift reforestation of the worlds lost forests: delivering seedlings via mass airdrops.
The Discovery team test different low tech seed cannisters for large scale reforestation via airdrop.
Phytoplankton produce about 90% of the atmosphere's oxygen whilst absorbing carbon dioxide. Dr Brian Von Herzong wants to increase the population of these plankton to battle the effects of carbon emissions.
Could helium-filled aerial turbines be the answer to humanity's reliance on fossil fuels?
Not everyone is so sure a sun shade in space is the answer to Earth's problem of global warming.
The logistics of covering one million square miles with light refracting lenses are astronomical.
Can customised clouds help to reflect more sunlight and therefore cool the planet?