Explore Challenges
- Natural disasters: how can we improve? [25 May 2010]
- Not In My Back Yard
- Digital Divide in the UK?
- Importing goods, exporting drought?
- The challenges and opportunities of an ageing society
- Engineering our climate
- The future shape of Capitalism
- Migration: skills and the job market
- Razing the Rainforest
- London under water
- Concreting the countryside
- Future of low carbon energy
- Africa in the 21st Century
Carbon Capture Storage
Necessity’s inventions
The infant science of geo-engineering – one that so many would gladly see strangled in its cradle – could grow into the best job creation scheme for universities ever invented.
Engineering our climate / In The News / Necessity’s inventions
United on climate change: Obama’s Chinese revolution
US President wants the world's two biggest polluters to form a partnership in the battle against global warming. Geoffrey Lean reports
Future of low carbon energy / In The News / United on climate change: Obama’s Chinese revolution
National Grid to pipe carbon dioxide emissions under North Sea
National Grid is drawing up plans for a new business unit that will pipe carbon dioxide emissions from UK power stations for storage in geological formations beneath the North Sea
Future of low carbon energy / In The News / National Grid to pipe carbon dioxide emissions under North Sea
Artificial trees
Artificial trees that could extract CO2 from the atmosphere.
Engineering our climate / 60 Seconds / Artificial trees
Increasing reflectivity
Could we cool the planet by increasing the reflectivity of urban areas?
Engineering our climate / 60 Seconds / Increasing reflectivity
Carbon capture won’t work until 2030, says energy boss
Sam Laidlaw, chief executive of Centrica, has warned that coal plants fitted with carbon capture storage (CCS) equipment are unlikely to be ready to make big cuts in Britain's emissions before 2030.
Engineering our climate / In The News / Carbon capture won’t work until 2030, says energy boss
Decision on new coal-fired plant delayed again
Decisions about any new coal-fired power plants in the UK have been delayed until the autumn, prompting warnings from energy companies about the growing risk that the country could run out of electricity generating capacity.
Engineering our climate / In The News / Decision on new coal-fired plant delayed again
Meet the panel for ‘Engineering our climate’
Read the biographies of the panel for 'Engineering our climate' event. Prof David Keith is an internationally renowned environmental scientist, based at Calgary Univeristy, Canada and Dr Paul Johnston, Head of Science Unit for Greenpeace International
Engineering our climate / Focus / Meet the panel for ‘Engineering our climate’
Carbon capture: Scrubbing the skies
Removing carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere could help combat climate change. Will it really work?
Engineering our climate / In The News / Carbon capture: Scrubbing the skies
Plan B: scientists get radical in bid to halt global warming ‘catastrophe’
The director of a Nasa space laboratory will this week lead thousands of climate change campaigners through Coventry in an extraordinary intervention in British politics.
Engineering our climate / In The News / Plan B: scientists get radical in bid to halt global warming ‘catastrophe’
Artificial trees and brightened clouds may help to cool us down
Techniques for geo-engineering are coming under serious scrutiny as temperatures and CO2 emissions continue to rise
Engineering our climate / In The News / Artificial trees and brightened clouds may help to cool us down
Artificial trees and brightened clouds may help to cool us down
Techniques for geo-engineering are coming under serious scrutiny as temperatures and CO2 emissions continue to rise
Concreting the countryside / In The News / Artificial trees and brightened clouds may help to cool us down
Solution to the carbon problem could be under the ground
Hope for the fight against climate change as study finds greenhouse gas can be buried without fear of leaking
Engineering our climate / In The News / Solution to the carbon problem could be under the ground
Engineers set to convert carbon dioxide into solid rock
Engineers in Iceland are set to convert carbon dioxide to solid rock as a way to tackle global warming.
Engineering our climate / In The News / Engineers set to convert carbon dioxide into solid rock
UK government to unveil plans for coal-powered future
Key to the plans will be boosting carbon capture and storage technology. CCS has the potential to capture 90% of emissions but has never been proven at commercial scale.
Engineering our climate / In The News / UK government to unveil plans for coal-powered future
Budget 2009: Darling gives renewables a £5bn shot in the arm
British Wind Energy Association welcomes package, but planning and grid connections still restrict renewables revolution
Future of low carbon energy / In The News / Budget 2009: Darling gives renewables a £5bn shot in the arm
Pollution ‘fights global warming’
Air pollution may be helping the fight against global warming by enhancing the ability of plants to absorb carbon dioxide, scientists say.
Engineering our climate / In The News / Pollution ‘fights global warming’
Interview: James Lovelock on how to save Gaia
James Lovelock suggests that the technology for reversing climate change may be within our grasp
Engineering our climate / In The News / Interview: James Lovelock on how to save Gaia
Carbon capture technology tested
New carbon capture technology is being tested for the first time in the UK on a working coal-fired power station.
Engineering our climate / In The News / Carbon capture technology tested