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From planting continent-long forests to inducing rainfall, researchers have begun proposing, testing, and in some cases implementing large-scale geoengineering projects to radically transform the planet. These projects a...

China has built the world's first robotic, partially submersible boat for launching sounding rockets -- a technology that will help meteorologists better understand the atmosphere over Earth's oceans.

A NASA scientist has visited a four-year-old island that satellites watched rise out of the waters -- a rare opportunity to see in person a new island that lasts more than a few months.