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mexico cloud seeding climate heat rain

Mexico steps up rain-making project amid intense heatwave and drought

Amid a historic heatwave and months of drought, Mexico’s government has launched the latest phase of a cloud seeding project it hopes will increase rainfall.

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geoengineering climate solutions
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Test flight for sunlight-blocking research is canceled

A test flight for researching ways to cool Earth by blocking sunlight will not take place as planned in Sweden this June, following objections from environmentalists, scientists and Indigenous groups there.

Virginia students take on solar energy challenge
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Virginia students take on solar energy challenge

Educators and innovators in Virginia devised a 10-week high school competition that enlisted bright young minds to propose innovations in solar energy.

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Jeff VanderMeer: It’s 2071, and we have bioengineered our own extinction
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Jeff VanderMeer: It’s 2071, and we have bioengineered our own extinction

The micro- and macro-organisms that saved humanity from our climate crisis are now changing us - and might destroy us.

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Scientists just engineered bacteria to eat CO2
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Scientists just engineered bacteria to eat CO2

Right now, biotech companies feed E. Coli sugar as they produce everything from insulin to biofuels. Now a new strain of the bacteria can suck emissions from the air as their food.
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