we will need innovative thinking to keep beautiful glaciers like this one around. (ashley gallagher/george washington university)
building a different kind of wall
a team of engineers might have an idea to slow rising seas and collapsing ice sheets. they have proposed building a giant wall in the sea to support some of the most vulnerable ice sheets in antarctica. this could be the largest civil engineering project ever attempted. it’d be a huge undertaking… but we’re on thin ice.