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PostApril 6, 2021

Geoengineering researchers have halted plans for a balloon launch in Sweden

Early illustration of the SCoPEx propelled balloon.

In an unexpected move, the advisory committee for a Harvard University geoengineering research project is recommending that the team suspend plans for its first balloon flight in Sweden this summer. In recent weeks, several environmental groups and geoengineering critics have called on Swedish government officials and the heads of the Swedish Space Corporation to halt the project, writes James Temple for the MIT Technology Review. 

Read the full article at: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/31/1021479/harvard-geoengineering-balloon-experiment-sweden-suspended-climate-change/

Image: Early illustration of the SCoPEx propelled balloon

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