With the rapidly melting glaciers contributing to sea level rise that threatens the lives of millions of people worldwide, scientists are working to find solutions that could prevent the potentially disastrous melting. In The Telegraph article titled "The race to save a glacier shedding 30 billion tons of ice a year", Moore and glaciologist Douglas R. MacAyeal, Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago, discuss some of the ideas presented in a recent white paper of which they are authors. Among the ideas featured in the piece is also the seabed curtain, a project that Moore and his colleagues have been working on for years.
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Read the white paper "Glacial Climate Intervention: A Research Vision"
The article "The race to save a glacier shedding 30 billion tons of ice a year", written by Verity Bowman, was published on August 8, 2024 on The Telegraph website. Image: screenshot of The Telegraph article. Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images.