Articles in the Category: Geoengineering
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Environment, Geoengineering, Horizon Oil Spill, Video on 06 1st, 2010 | No Comments

Oil Spill: BP Fails at Top Kill as Oil Continues to Flow

Oil Spill: BP Fails at Top Kill as Oil Continues to Flow
The White House warns that oil from the Gulf of Mexico disaster will likely continue leaking until August after BP declares its ‘top kill’ operation a failure, the CBC’s David Common reports. Editor’s note: Why doesn’t a consortium of structural, ocean and even geo engineers...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Climate Change, Geoengineering, Geology, Video on 12 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

Philippine Volcano Prepares to Blow

Philippine Volcano Prepares to Blow
Mt. Mayon is known worldwide for its almost symmetrical cone but that could all change if it decides to blow its top, a move seismologists are saying could happen soon. The last time a big volcano in the Philippines rumbled to life like this was in 1991. Within 60 days Mt. Pinatubo exploded sending...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Climate, Climate Change, Engineering, Environment, Geoengineering, Politics, SciClips, Video on 12 21st, 2009 | No Comments

Science Looks for Plan B after Getting the Cold Shoulder at Warming Talks

Science Looks for Plan B after Getting the Cold Shoulder at Warming Talks
Many scientists are disappointed after two weeks of climate change negotiations resulted in a toothless agreement that didn’t limit carbon dioxide, the main culprit of global warming. The new Copenhagen Accord(PDF) did not cut emissions as previously thought, dimming some hope that a global treaty...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate Change, Engineering, Environment, Featured Articles, Geoengineering, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips on 08 13th, 2009 | No Comments

Hurricane Wrangling with Bill Gates

Hurricane Wrangling with Bill Gates
If runaway global warming gets the better of humanity, then some fairly drastic measures will be needed to stave off the worst effects. That’s where a group of futurists start talking about geoengineering some extreme solutions to the problem. The latest plan to limit the effects of global warming...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Artificial Intelligence, Backyard Science, Biofuels, Biology, Climate Change, Dinosaurs, Diseases, Engineering, Environment, Food and Nutrition, Genetics, Genomics, Geoengineering, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Nanotechnology, SciClips, Space, Wave Power on 11 17th, 2008 | No Comments

One Celled Solutions

One Celled Solutions
Model of a phage attacking a microbe, courtesy of Ohio State University Science is facing some big questions, like how will we capture excess atmospheric carbon dioxide or how will we overcome antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections? But, a one-celled organism that lives in the sea may have the...
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