A research project experimenting with the use of glass balls to reflect sunlight far from the Arctic was canceled after the test results suggested that it was a threat to the food chain.
The Arctic ice project had tested the use of silica beads to increase the reflectivity of young sea ice, helping to preserve it throughout the Arctic summer.
The non -profit program, founded in 2007 and based in California, had previously had deployed glass beads at test sites in the …
