To do this, he surveyed the results of a biennial contest held in Asilomar, California.

ECONOMIST: Structural genomics: Strategic thinking | The

In retrospect, the Asilomar meeting may come to be seen as a step towards that respectable system, but probably only a small one.

ECONOMIST: Geoengineering

In the week of the Asilomar meeting Science published evidence that more pollutants than previously appreciated, including oxides of sulphur, are getting into the lower stratosphere.

ECONOMIST: Geoengineering

One set of small-scale sunshine-reduction experiments discussed in Asilomar would send plumes of various sulphurous fluids in the stratosphere to find out which would best produce a haze of small particles similar to those that cool the planet after a large volcanic eruption.

ECONOMIST: Geoengineering