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There's a last-resort 'planet-hacking' plan to make Earth habitable for longer - but scientists warn it could have dramatic consequences

We're still far from understanding all the risks involved with injecting sulfur into our atmosphere…

Kevin Loria   


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Scientists think a giant artificial wall propped up under Antarctica's ice sheets could stop catastrophic sea level rise

The project is still theoretical. This sort of "ice sheet intervention today would be at the edge o…

Kevin Loria   


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Andrew Yang could be the wild card at the first 2020 Democratic debate

When it comes down to it, Yang is under far less pressure than a lot of the other candidates, many …

John Haltiwanger   


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What the 10 Democrats running for president each think the US should do about climate change

Nearly all of said that the US should recommit to the Paris climate agreement (President Donald Tru…

Aylin Woodward   


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New York City has painted over 6 million square feet of rooftops white - and it could be a brilliant heat-fighting plan

Arizona State University professor Matei Georgescu, the lead author of the 2014 study, wrote that r…

Peter Kotecki   


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This radical atmospheric hack could cool our planet super fast

In 2011, British research collaboration Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering (S…

Sarah Kramer   


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How Bill Gates became a favorite target of far-right conspiracy theorists

Bill Gates has been targeted by conspiracy theorists for years. Here's why he emerged as a main sca…

Rachel E. Greenspan   


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A new 2020 Democratic primary poll shows Warren surging alongside fellow frontrunners Biden and Sanders

Biden is the only candidate with a majority of his current supporters pledging to see their support…

Kat Tenbarge   


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Bill Nye says bubbling air into Earth's oceans might save the planet from ourselves

Seitz proposed pumping tiny "microbubbles" into the ocean, which would increase the thickness of br…

Julia Calderone   


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Deep frying food could make cities cloudier, new research has found

Triglycerides and fatty acids released into the atmosphere from frying form complex, 3-D crystallin…

Hilary Brueck   


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The world faces a future of floods, famine, and extreme heat - here's how we survive

We have long understood how to keep the Earth's average temperature from reaching dangerous levels.…

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How we'll control the weather in 100 years

Scientists at Harvard University are researching the possibility of creating a similar effect witho…

Uma Sharma,Alyssa Pagano   


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TED, an elite ideas conference for the brilliant and wealthy, can't seem to avoid Trump

Attendance at the event costs $10,000 for a standard ticket (first-time, early-career attendees can…

Ariel Schwartz   


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Friends Today, Foe Tomorrow: 10 Technological Threats To Human Life

Technology has a tendency of captivating us, and exciting us, but also possibly destroying us, too.

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An artist has a crazy plan to save the planet by creating a supercontinent

Later this month, Keats will bring his project to San Francisco's Modernism Gallery, where visitors…

Ariel Schwartz   


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Bernie Sanders just declared war on the fossil fuel industry with a $16 trillion climate change plan

"The scope of the challenge ahead of us shares some similarities with the crisis faced by President…

John Haltiwanger   


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Shrinking humans like they do in 'Downsizing' is actually somewhat possible - and not such a bad idea

In the movie, Matt Damon's character works at a call center, but in reality his tiny voice would be…

Hilary Brueck   


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A new study on the side effects of wind energy is almost begging to be misused by climate change deniers

Right now, global temperatures are climbing because fossil fuel use pumps carbon dioxide and other …

Kevin Loria   


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There's a 95% chance the world will warm beyond a crucial tipping point - here's what that means

"Huge swaths of the world will be living in places that by the end of the century will have heat wa…

Kevin Loria   


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Andrew Yang is running for president in 2020. Here's everything we know about the candidate and how he stacks up against the competition.

INSIDER has been conducting a recurring poll through SurveyMonkey Audience on a national sample to …

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