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Geoengineering sounds like a quick climate fix, but without more research and guardrails, it's a costly gamble − with potentially harmful results

  • Written by David Kitchen, Associate Professor of Geology, University of Richmond
imageGeoengineering includes techniques to reflect solar energy.Elvis Tam/500px via Getty Images

When soaring temperatures, extreme weather and catastrophic wildfires hit the headlines, people start asking for quick fixes to climate change. The U.S. government just announced the first awards from a US$3.5 billion fund for projects that promise to pull...

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