A plan to shoot tiny droplets into the sky would cool the planet—but wouldn’t help crops
Shooting aerosols high into the sky will cool the planet but reduce sunlight
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Massive drought or myth? Scientists spar over an ancient climate event behind our new geological age
Uncertainty dogs 4200-year-old drought used to define the Meghalayan -
Science insurgents plot a climate model driven by artificial intelligence
Fueled by tech-philanthropy cash, the Earth Machine seeks to clear up the future of global warming -
Rising bedrock below West Antarctica could delay catastrophic ice sheet collapse
Its burden lightening, crust beneath glaciers is rising at a startling pace -
Ancient Earth froze over in a geologic instant
Ethiopian rocks show how rapid planetary freezing was triggered by a glacial feedback loop -
Life rebounded just years after the dinosaur-killing asteroid struck
Ocean water delivered oxygen to small animals in the crater -
Plants outweigh all other life on Earth
Trees and other greenery make up 80% of all biomass -
This ocean path will take you on the longest straight-line journey on Earth
Mathematicians prove a 5-year-old reddit hypothesis -
U.S.-U.K. science armada to target vulnerable Antarctic ice sheet
One hundred scientists to study sea level rise risks from Thwaites glacier -
Colombian scientists race to study once-forbidden territory before it is lost to development—or new conflict
Peace deal with guerrillas opens up research opportunities -
Second-largest earthquake in modern South Korean history tied to geothermal plant
Damaging November 2017 quake puts low-emission energy source at risk -
Forest fires keep billions of liters of water on the ground
Conflagrations could help relieve water shortages -
Robot-launched weather balloons in Alaska hasten demise of remote stations
U.S. weather service union fears automation threatens jobs and sacrifices forecasters’ local knowledge -
Eroding mountains could release, not trap, greenhouse gases
Microbes feast on fossil carbon exhumed by Taiwanese peaks -
Canadian ice cap conceals supersalty lakes
Briny liquid lies in troughs in bedrock hundreds of meters down -
The bigger the earthquake, the longer it takes to issue an alert
Only alerts produced by tiny tremors give people enough time to move to safety
