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James Dinneen

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Fights over geoengineering experiments will heat up in 2025

Some researchers propose counteracting global warming by reflecting more sunlight into spaceShutterstock/Pablo…

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Is solar geoengineering research having its moment?

Particles in ship exhaust inadvertently cause cloud brightening – some geoengineering projects…

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Are vast amounts of hydrogen fuel hidden below Earth’s surface?

Drill rig in Nebraska run by Natural Hydrogen Energy LLC, which established…

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Parker Solar Probe will soon go deeper into the sun than ever before

Illustration of NASA’s Parker Solar ProbeNASA GSFC/CIL/Brian Monroe In less than two…

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Melting permafrost makes ‘drunken forests’ store less carbon

A drunken forest in Alaska, where trees are tilting or collapsing to…

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What will it take to solve our planet’s plastic pollution crisis?

Plastic waste in IndonesiaPA Images / Alamy The world currently produces more…

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We may have solved the mystery of what froze Earth’s inner core

How did Earth’s inner core freeze solid?Rost9/Shutterstock A high concentration of carbon…

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COP29: Satellites spot methane leaks – but ‘super-emitters’ don’t fix them

A methane plume at least 4.8 kilometres long billows into the atmosphere…

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How a single gopher restored a landscape devastated by a volcano

The northern pocket gopher (Thomomys talpoides) brings unexpected ecosystem benefitsAll Canada Photos/Alamy…

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What to expect at the COP16 biodiversity summit

Countries are convening in Colombia to agree on wide-ranging targets to stem…

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