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  • 35th Anniversary Of The Cabarceno Nature Park
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    35th Anniversary Of The Cabarceno Nature Park
    A tiger rests in the shade of a tree in the enclosure specially designed for these felines in the Cabarceno Nature Park in Cantabria, Spain, which celebrates its 35th anniversary in June. (Photo by Joaquin Gomez Sastre/NurPhoto)

     

  • Heat In Shanghai
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    Heat In Shanghai
    A man uses his hand to block the sun during the heatwave in Lujiazui, Shanghai, China, on June 17, 2025. (Photo by Ying Tang/NurPhoto)

     

  • People Cooling Off At The River Isar In Munich
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    People Cooling Off At The River Isar In Munich
    Crowds of people gather on the riverbanks and in the shallow waters of the Isar River during a summer heatwave in Munich, Germany, on June 13, 2025. The scene reflects a popular local leisure activity and heat relief during warm weather conditions. (Photo by Michael Nguyen/NurPhoto)

     

  • Ginger Planting Base in Anqing
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    Ginger Planting Base in Anqing
    Villagers build a sunshade net in the ginger planting base in Anqing City, Anhui Province, China, on June 14, 2025. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto)

     

  • Ginger Planting Base in Anqing
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    Ginger Planting Base in Anqing
    Villagers build a sunshade net in the ginger planting base in Anqing City, Anhui Province, China, on June 14, 2025. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto)

     

  • Ginger Planting Base in Anqing
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    Ginger Planting Base in Anqing
    Villagers build a sunshade net in the ginger planting base in Anqing City, Anhui Province, China, on June 14, 2025. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto)

     

  • Ginger Planting Base in Anqing
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    Ginger Planting Base in Anqing
    Villagers build a sunshade net in the ginger planting base in Anqing City, Anhui Province, China, on June 14, 2025. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto)

     

  • Ginger Planting Base in Anqing
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    Ginger Planting Base in Anqing
    Villagers build a sunshade net in the ginger planting base in Anqing City, Anhui Province, China, on June 14, 2025. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto)

     

  • Ginger Planting Base in Anqing
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    Ginger Planting Base in Anqing
    Villagers build a sunshade net in the ginger planting base in Anqing City, Anhui Province, China, on June 14, 2025. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto)

     

  • Ginger Planting Base in Anqing
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    Ginger Planting Base in Anqing
    Villagers build a sunshade net in the ginger planting base in Anqing City, Anhui Province, China, on June 14, 2025. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto)

     

  • Ginger Planting Base in Anqing
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    Ginger Planting Base in Anqing
    Villagers build a sunshade net in the ginger planting base in Anqing City, Anhui Province, China, on June 14, 2025. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto)

     

  • Ginger Planting Base in Anqing
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    Ginger Planting Base in Anqing
    Villagers build a sunshade net in the ginger planting base in Anqing City, Anhui Province, China, on June 14, 2025. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto)

     

  • Warm Weather - Tourism In Greece
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    Warm Weather - Tourism In Greece
    Tourists use umbrellas to protect from the sun during warm weather in the center of Athens, Greece, on June 11, 2025. (Photo by Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto)

     

  • Warm Weather - Tourism In Greece
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    Warm Weather - Tourism In Greece
    Tourists use umbrellas to protect from the sun during warm weather in the center of Athens, Greece, on June 11, 2025. (Photo by Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto)

     

  • Weather In Dhaka
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    Weather In Dhaka
    A traffic policeman stands under a shelter for shade during hot weather in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on June 10, 2025. The shelter is not visible in the photo. (Photo by Syed Mahamudur Rahman/NurPhoto)

     

  • India Weather Summer
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    India Weather Summer
    Indian people rest under the shade of a tree on a hot summer day in Siliguri, India, on June 9, 2025. (Photo by Diptendu Dutta/NurPhoto)

     

  • Two Young People Walk Hand In Hand In A Group In A Park
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    Two Young People Walk Hand In Hand In A Group In A Park
    Four young people walk along a tree-lined path in a green park, with two of them holding hands, in Straubing, Lower Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany, on April 26, 2025. The group strolls past the old town wall under spring foliage, with a church tower visible in the background. (Photo by Michael Nguyen/NurPhoto)

     

  • Hot Weather In Kashmir
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    Hot Weather In Kashmir
    A burqa-clad girl sits under the shade of chinar trees on the banks of the River Jhelum during a hot summer day in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, on May 27, 2025. (Photo by Firdous Nazir/NurPhoto)

     

  • Zamanand Festival Munich
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    Zamanand Festival Munich
    Visitors relax on deck chairs and gather around a program map at the Zamanand Festival in front of the Feldherrnhalle on Ludwigstrasse in Munich, Bavaria, Upper Bavaria, Germany, on May 24, 2025. The event includes music, art, sustainability, and community activities stretching from Odeonsplatz to Siegestor. (Photo by Michael Nguyen/NurPhoto)

     

  • Zamanand Festival Munich
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    Zamanand Festival Munich
    Festival visitors relax on branded deck chairs while they listen to a small live music performance at the Wohnzimmer Buhne (Living Room Stage) during the Zamanand Festival on Ludwigstrasse in Munich, Bavaria, Upper Bavaria, Germany, on May 24, 2025. The setup features lounge furniture, shade covers, and a container stage in an urban outdoor environment. (Photo by Michael Nguyen/NurPhoto)

     

  • Zamanand Festival Munich
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    Zamanand Festival Munich
    People sit and rest near the climate garden installation ''Keep Green - Der Klimawandel-Garten'' during the Zamanand Festival outside the university buildings on Ludwigstrasse in Munich, Bavaria, Upper Bavaria, Germany, on May 24, 2025. The installation promotes urban greening and climate adaptation awareness in public spaces. (Photo by Michael Nguyen/NurPhoto)

     

  • Warsaw Daily Life
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    Warsaw Daily Life
    An outdoor restaurant terrace with Zywiec branded parasols are is seen in Warsaw, Poland on 20 May, 2025. (Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto)

     

  • Riverside Relaxation By The Vltava River In Prague
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    Riverside Relaxation By The Vltava River In Prague
    Three young people spend time together on the sandy bank of the Vltava River, sketching and talking in the shade of riverside trees in Prague, Czech Republic, on May 12, 2025. Art supplies and personal belongings are spread around as they engage in a creative outdoor session by the calm water. (Photo by Michael Nguyen/NurPhoto)

     

  • Heatwave Starts In Nepal As Summer Kicks In
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    Heatwave Starts In Nepal As Summer Kicks In
    People walk on a footpath holding umbrellas in Lalitpur, Nepal, on May 15, 2025. Temperatures across Nepal continue to rise with the sun shining brightly, pushing up the mercury and prompting people to search for cool and humid places. (Photo by Sanjit Pariyar/NurPhoto)

     

  • Heatwave Starts In Nepal As Summer Kicks In
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    Heatwave Starts In Nepal As Summer Kicks In
    People walk on a footpath holding umbrellas in Lalitpur, Nepal, on May 15, 2025. Temperatures across Nepal continue to rise with the sun shining brightly, pushing up the mercury and prompting people to search for cool and humid places. (Photo by Sanjit Pariyar/NurPhoto)

     

  • Heatwave Starts In Nepal As Summer Kicks In
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    Heatwave Starts In Nepal As Summer Kicks In
    People walk on a footpath holding umbrellas in Lalitpur, Nepal, on May 15, 2025. Temperatures across Nepal continue to rise with the sun shining brightly, pushing up the mercury and prompting people to search for cool and humid places. (Photo by Sanjit Pariyar/NurPhoto)

     

  • India Worker
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    India Worker
    Workers set up new shade over a building to mitigate the heatwave and scorching heat of the Sun in Siliguri, India, on May 12, 2025. (Photo by Diptendu Dutta/NurPhoto)

     

  • Red Umbrella Shades A Sunlit Balcony On A Late Summer Day
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    Red Umbrella Shades A Sunlit Balcony On A Late Summer Day
    A red umbrella stands open on a balcony of a residential building under bright sunlight in Rosenheim, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany, on September 5, 2021. The clear sky and warm lighting reflect stable late summer weather in southern Germany. (Photo by Michael Nguyen/NurPhoto)

     

  • Senior And Child Hiking Together
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    Senior And Child Hiking Together
    A senior man and a young girl hike up a gravel trail on Wank Mountain in the Bavarian Alps near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany, on May 1, 2025. The two walk hand in hand under a bright blue sky. (Photo by Michael Nguyen/NurPhoto)

     

  • International Workers Day rally at the White House
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    International Workers Day rally at the White House
    People sit in the shade on a hot day during a demonstration observing International Workers Day in Lafayette Park, next to the White House, in Washington, D.C., U.S., on May 1, 2025. Protesters demanded protections against abductions, deportations, and workplace abuses. (Photo by Allison Bailey/NurPhoto)

     

  • Spring In A Munich Housing Estate
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    Spring In A Munich Housing Estate
    Bicycles park along a paved walkway next to a row of multi-storey residential buildings in a housing estate in Munich, Bavaria, Upper Bavaria, Germany, on April 28, 2025. A person sits on a bench in the background, and tall leafy trees shade the area, indicating the arrival of spring. (Photo by Michael Nguyen/NurPhoto)

     

  • Daily Life In Nepal
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    Daily Life In Nepal
    A monk pedestrian uses an umbrella for protection from the scorching sun on a hot summer day in Jagadol, Kathmandu, Nepal, on April 26, 2025. (Photo by Narayan Maharjan/NurPhoto)

     

  • Daily Life In Nepal
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    Daily Life In Nepal
    A monk pedestrian uses an umbrella for protection from the scorching sun on a hot summer day in Jagadol, Kathmandu, Nepal, on April 26, 2025. (Photo by Narayan Maharjan/NurPhoto)

     

  • Daily Life In India
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    Daily Life In India
    A vegetable shopkeeper and a customer use umbrellas to protect themselves from the sun on a hot summer day in Kolkata, India, on April 24, 2025. (Photo by Debajyoti Chakraborty)

     

  • India Weather
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    India Weather
    A women police are using umbrellas for protection from the scorching sun on a hot summer day in Kolkata ,India on April 22,2025. (Photo by Debajyoti Chakraborty/NurPhoto)

     

  • Saving a spot: how Australia's beach cabana conundrum exposes a battle over long-held ideals
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    Saving a spot: how Australia's beach cabana conundrum exposes a battle over long-held ideals
    Cabanas the structures mark a de facto frontline in a battle over one of the country's most sacred principles: free and equal access to the beach

    Beach goers erect a variety of cabanas, umbrellas and gazebo's along Safety beach on the Mornington Peninsula. Victoria. Virginia Mamakis, 40 with her cabana and old school umbrellas for her family group to sit under . Australia
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  • Saving a spot: how Australia's beach cabana conundrum exposes a battle over long-held ideals
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    Saving a spot: how Australia's beach cabana conundrum exposes a battle over long-held ideals
    Cabanas the structures mark a de facto frontline in a battle over one of the country's most sacred principles: free and equal access to the beach

    Beach goers erect a variety of cabanas, umbrellas and gazebo's along Safety beach on the Mornington Peninsula. Victoria. Australia
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  • Saving a spot: how Australia's beach cabana conundrum exposes a battle over long-held ideals
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    Saving a spot: how Australia's beach cabana conundrum exposes a battle over long-held ideals
    Cabanas the structures mark a de facto frontline in a battle over one of the country's most sacred principles: free and equal access to the beach

    Beach goers erect a variety of cabanas, umbrellas and gazebo's along Safety beach on the Mornington Peninsula. Victoria. Australia
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  • Saving a spot: how Australia's beach cabana conundrum exposes a battle over long-held ideals
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    Saving a spot: how Australia's beach cabana conundrum exposes a battle over long-held ideals
    Cabanas the structures mark a de facto frontline in a battle over one of the country's most sacred principles: free and equal access to the beach

    Beach goers erect a variety of cabanas, umbrellas and gazebo's along Safety beach on the Mornington Peninsula. Victoria. Australia
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  • US's hottest city turns to trees to cool those most in need
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    US's hottest city turns to trees to cool those most in need
    Phoenix broke several heat records last year. Now Grant Park, which has inequitable tree cover, is seeing a tree-planting drive that promises some respite from 100F temperatures.

    Phoenix is America's fifth largest and hottest city, a sprawling urban heat island which has expanded without adequate consideration to climate and environmental factors like water scarcity and extreme heat.
    Over the course of three days in early April, arborists planted 40 or so desert adapted trees in Grant Park, as part of the city's equity-driven heat mitigation plan to create a shadier, more liveable environment amid rising temperatures and hundreds of heat-related deaths.

    The city distributes the tree care kits for the community

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  • US's hottest city turns to trees to cool those most in need
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    US's hottest city turns to trees to cool those most in need
    Phoenix broke several heat records last year. Now Grant Park, which has inequitable tree cover, is seeing a tree-planting drive that promises some respite from 100F temperatures.

    Phoenix is America's fifth largest and hottest city, a sprawling urban heat island which has expanded without adequate consideration to climate and environmental factors like water scarcity and extreme heat.
    Over the course of three days in early April, arborists planted 40 or so desert adapted trees in Grant Park, as part of the city's equity-driven heat mitigation plan to create a shadier, more liveable environment amid rising temperatures and hundreds of heat-related deaths.

    Evangeline "Vengie" Muller, 75, on her front porch

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  • US's hottest city turns to trees to cool those most in need
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    US's hottest city turns to trees to cool those most in need
    Phoenix broke several heat records last year. Now Grant Park, which has inequitable tree cover, is seeing a tree-planting drive that promises some respite from 100F temperatures.

    Phoenix is America's fifth largest and hottest city, a sprawling urban heat island which has expanded without adequate consideration to climate and environmental factors like water scarcity and extreme heat.
    Over the course of three days in early April, arborists planted 40 or so desert adapted trees in Grant Park, as part of the city's equity-driven heat mitigation plan to create a shadier, more liveable environment amid rising temperatures and hundreds of heat-related deaths.

    Grant Park community is one of the most neglected parts of the city - there is barely any shade in the area

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  • US's hottest city turns to trees to cool those most in need
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    US's hottest city turns to trees to cool those most in need
    Phoenix broke several heat records last year. Now Grant Park, which has inequitable tree cover, is seeing a tree-planting drive that promises some respite from 100F temperatures.

    Phoenix is America's fifth largest and hottest city, a sprawling urban heat island which has expanded without adequate consideration to climate and environmental factors like water scarcity and extreme heat.
    Over the course of three days in early April, arborists planted 40 or so desert adapted trees in Grant Park, as part of the city's equity-driven heat mitigation plan to create a shadier, more liveable environment amid rising temperatures and hundreds of heat-related deaths.

    Ana Cordoba, 75, in her backyard with two new trees, dreams of sitting under their shade one day

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  • US's hottest city turns to trees to cool those most in need
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    US's hottest city turns to trees to cool those most in need
    Phoenix broke several heat records last year. Now Grant Park, which has inequitable tree cover, is seeing a tree-planting drive that promises some respite from 100F temperatures.

    Phoenix is America's fifth largest and hottest city, a sprawling urban heat island which has expanded without adequate consideration to climate and environmental factors like water scarcity and extreme heat.
    Over the course of three days in early April, arborists planted 40 or so desert adapted trees in Grant Park, as part of the city's equity-driven heat mitigation plan to create a shadier, more liveable environment amid rising temperatures and hundreds of heat-related deaths.

    The city contractors plant the trees for the residents who applied for the program.

    Tamuna Chkareuli / Guardian / eyevine

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  • US's hottest city turns to trees to cool those most in need
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    US's hottest city turns to trees to cool those most in need
    Phoenix broke several heat records last year. Now Grant Park, which has inequitable tree cover, is seeing a tree-planting drive that promises some respite from 100F temperatures.

    Phoenix is America's fifth largest and hottest city, a sprawling urban heat island which has expanded without adequate consideration to climate and environmental factors like water scarcity and extreme heat.
    Over the course of three days in early April, arborists planted 40 or so desert adapted trees in Grant Park, as part of the city's equity-driven heat mitigation plan to create a shadier, more liveable environment amid rising temperatures and hundreds of heat-related deaths.

    Silverio Ontiveros

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  • US's hottest city turns to trees to cool those most in need
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    US's hottest city turns to trees to cool those most in need
    Phoenix broke several heat records last year. Now Grant Park, which has inequitable tree cover, is seeing a tree-planting drive that promises some respite from 100F temperatures.

    Phoenix is America's fifth largest and hottest city, a sprawling urban heat island which has expanded without adequate consideration to climate and environmental factors like water scarcity and extreme heat.
    Over the course of three days in early April, arborists planted 40 or so desert adapted trees in Grant Park, as part of the city's equity-driven heat mitigation plan to create a shadier, more liveable environment amid rising temperatures and hundreds of heat-related deaths.

    Susan Ontiveros next to the freshly planted trees in her and Silverio's frontyard

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  • Plan to  combat global warming with sun shade tied to asteroid
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    Plan to combat global warming with sun shade tied to asteroid

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    A plan to help reduce the effects of global warming has been revealed— using an umbrella-like sun shield attached to an asteroid.
    The shield would reduce the amount of sunlight hitting Earth, using a tethered, captured asteroid as a counterweight.
    Engineering studies using this approach could start now to create a workable design that could mitigate climate change within decades according to astronomer István Szapudi, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii.
    Szapudi believes one of the simplest approaches to reducing the global temperature is to shade the Earth from a fraction of the Sun’s light.
    This shield idea without a counterbalance has been previously proposed.
    But the large amount of weight needed to make a shield massive enough to balance gravitational forces and prevent solar radiation pressure from blowing it away makes even the lightest materials prohibitively expensive.
    Szapudi’s creative solution consists of two innovations.
    One is using a tethered counterweight instead of just a massive shield, resulting in making the total mass more than 100 times less.
    The other is using a captured asteroid as the counterweight to avoid launching most of the mass from Earth.

    OPS: Render of the idea showing how a solar shield tethered to an asteroid.

    Picture supplied by Ferrari (FOTO: DUKAS/FERRARI PRESS)

     

  • Plan to  combat global warming with sun shade tied to asteroid
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    Plan to combat global warming with sun shade tied to asteroid

    Ferrari Press Agency

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    14/08/2023

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    Pictures must credit: Brooks Bays/UH Institute for Astronomy

    A plan to help reduce the effects of global warming has been revealed— using an umbrella-like sun shield attached to an asteroid.
    The shield would reduce the amount of sunlight hitting Earth, using a tethered, captured asteroid as a counterweight.
    Engineering studies using this approach could start now to create a workable design that could mitigate climate change within decades according to astronomer István Szapudi, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii.
    Szapudi believes one of the simplest approaches to reducing the global temperature is to shade the Earth from a fraction of the Sun’s light.
    This shield idea without a counterbalance has been previously proposed.
    But the large amount of weight needed to make a shield massive enough to balance gravitational forces and prevent solar radiation pressure from blowing it away makes even the lightest materials prohibitively expensive.
    Szapudi’s creative solution consists of two innovations.
    One is using a tethered counterweight instead of just a massive shield, resulting in making the total mass more than 100 times less.
    The other is using a captured asteroid as the counterweight to avoid launching most of the mass from Earth.

    OPS: Render of the idea showing how a solar shield tethered to an asteroid.

    Picture supplied by Ferrari (FOTO: DUKAS/FERRARI PRESS)

     

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