According to a 2021 Pew Research Center survey, 44% of Americans are willing to make “some” changes to how they live and work to help reduce the effects of global climate change. Another 30% said they were willing to make “a lot” of changes.
Scientists have carried out a trial of prototype cloud brightening equipment on the Great Barrier Reef they hope could be scaled up to shade and cool corals and protect them from bleaching caused by rising global temperatures.
Brightening clouds with salt crystals and deploying slicks of coral larvae to try and limit the impacts of global heating on the Great Barrier Reef are among more than 40 concepts being backed by the Australian government in an ambitious $150m research and development program.
