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Welcome to our weekly round-up of SRM news and events.  

Highlights

An Indigenous perspective on climate engineering (Energy Research & Social Science, May 8) 


Exploring Climate Cooling: Funded Projects (ARIA, May 7) 


Controversial geoengineering projects to test Earth-cooling tech funded by UK agency (Nature, May 7) 


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In Academia

Articles


An Indigenous perspective on climate engineering Busch, F., Krupa, J., Harding, A. (Perspective, Energy Research & Social Science, May 8) 


Ice nucleation by volcanic ash greatly alters cirrus cloud properties Lin, L., Liu, X., Zhao, X., Shan, Y., Ke, Z., Lyu, K., Bowman, K.P. (Science Advances, May 9) 


Preprint 


Marine Cloud Brightening to Cool the Arctic: an Earth System Model Comparison Henry, M., Hirasawa, H., Haywood, J.M., Rasch, P.J. (ESS Open Archive, May 10) 

SRM Community

The Degrees Forum in Cape Town SRM360 (May 13) 


CSEi Receives $5 Million Grant from Quadrature Climate Foundation to Advance SRM Research University of Chicago (May 12) 


Exploring Climate Cooling: Funded Projects ARIA (May 7) 

SRM in the Media

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Top Stories


Space mirrors and volcano drones: £56m awarded for geoengineering experiments The Chemical Engineer (Adam Duckett, May 12) 


Outdoor experiments planned for climate cooling technologies SOCI (Steve Ranger, May 12) 


Government-backed solar geoengineering spurs green tech and crypto market shifts Noah News (Jaimie Isaias, May 10) 


RFK Jr. said a government arm is spraying the sky with jet fuel chemicals. That's a lie Austin American-Statesman (Madison Czopek, May 9) 


The secretive government unit planning to dim the sun The Telegraph (Sarah Knapton, May 8) 


UK plans to ‘reflect sunlight’ get £57,000,000 funding – but what does it mean? Metro UK (Jasper King, May 8) 


Controversial geoengineering projects to test Earth-cooling tech funded by UK agency Nature (Jonathan O’Callaghan, May 7) 



Climate in the Media

Scientists sound alarm as administration guts vital environmental report: 'This leaves the nation more vulnerable' The Cool Down (Susan Elizabeth Turek, May 11) 


Hope to halt climate change by thickening Arctic sea ice The Times (Rhys Blakely, May 10) 


This April was world’s second-hottest on record, EU scientists say Politico (Zia Weise, May 8) 


Deadly April rainfall in US South and Midwest was intensified by climate change, scientists say The Independent (Isabella O'Malley, May 8) 


The new pope, Leo XIV, has spoken out about urgent need for climate change action Fast Company (Kristin Toussaint, May 8) 

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