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Asia's climate crisis

The climate moonshot: engineering the earth

Asia Pacific research looks to sun, rain and air in battle against global heating

This is the latest piece in a series on the COP26 climate summit and the danger Asia faces from global heating. Previous articles can be viewed here.

TOKYO / JAKARTA / BANGKOK / SHANGHAI -- The mass bleaching of Great Barrier Reef coral by rising global temperatures has driven scientists to pioneer a striking new defense: reconfiguring clouds to better block the sun.

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