global warming

The Killer Argument for a Profoundly Dangerous Climate Fix

May 17, 2019

BY: Jeremy Deaton The UN Environment Assembly recently considered a proposal to research solar geoengineering, as it’s known, an outlandish scheme to cool the Earth by blanketing the heavens with aerosols — chemicals that would reflect a small measure of sunlight back into…

How the Whitney Museum protects its priceless art

March 2, 2018 | Episode

Superstorm Sandy ripped through lower Manhattan in 2012, flooding the construction site of the Whitney Museum's new location right on the river. After that disastrous event, they designed a fortress-like flood protection system for when climate disaster strikes again, making…