Geo-engineering

Frontiers by BBC

Dec 11, 201328:02Science & Medicine

Geoengineering is a controversial approach to dealing with climate change. Gaia Vince explores putting chemicals in the stratosphere to stop solar energy reaching the earth. When volcanoes erupt they put sulphur in the s...

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