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Photopixel / Shutterstock Scientists working on a project to slow down the relentless flooding that has swamped Jakarta since mid January say that cloud seeding is getting the job done...

Photopixel / Shutterstock Scientists working on a project to slow down the relentless flooding that has swamped Jakarta since mid January say that cloud seeding is getting the job done...

Geo-engineering (the deliberate large-scale manipulation of the environment to combat anthropogenic changes in atmospheric chemistry) has long been touted as a way to counteract the catastrophic effects of global warming,...

The COP17 Durban Climate Change Conference ended with the failure to institute a binding emissions agreement, so it seems that the world’s efforts to avoid the effects of climate change are at a crossroads...

'Techno-hippy' and lifelong green Stewart Brand says a shift to nuclear power and GM food is needed to prevent global warmingStewart Brand appears to have squeezed many lives into his 71 years and defies easy categorisation,...

Martin Wainwright reports from the Pennines on a new project to raise hot water from granite rock

Geothermal project promises limitless recyclable supplies for housing in Eastgate, Co DurhamWarm as bathwater, the first gusher from Britain's new "underground central heating system" showered over a Pennine field today,...

The Institution of Mechanical Engineers' 'battle plan' for climate change includes geo-engineering and nuclear powerIt will be physically impossible for the UK to meet its renewable energy targets in both the short and long...

The field of geo-engineering has launched all kinds of outlandish ideas for combating climate change, from dumping iron into the world’s oceans to shooting mirrors into space...

Tim Kruger explains how putting lime into the oceans could stop or even reverse the accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere

Ships that spray minute water droplets into the sky could increase cloud cover and reflect sunlight away from the earth

Giant plastic 'stomachs' in the sea could be used to digest seaweed farmed at the ocean surface, converting it into CO2 for burial and methane for cooking and heating

The idea is one of 20 radical solutions to the threat of global warming to be proposed during presentations at a conference in Manchester this weekend

Take the time to check this out, Environmental scientist David Keith proposes a cheap, effective, shocking means to address climate change: What if we injected a huge cloud of ash into the atmosphere to deflect sunlight and...

In this week's show, our new columnist Chris French, who edits the Skeptic magazine, discusses what it means to be a sceptic and why he thinks sceptical thinking is making a comeback.