GEO ENGINEERING Subject: Environment Context : As per a report by Nature, the US’s National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) has called on the government to fund (to the tune of $200 million over five years) research on solar geoengineering. Concept: Geoengineering is an umbrella term for human interventions that change […]

    GEO ENGINEERING Subject : Environment Concept : Geoengineering is an umbrella term for human interventions that change the earth’s climate system . There are currently two main approaches under the geoengineering umbrella: carbon-dioxide removal (CDR) and solar radiation management (SRM). CDR tackles the root cause of global warming by removing greenhouse gases from […]