Whether it's cloud seeding or covering the Arctic in tiny glass beads, there’s little standing in the way of weather ...
Fed up with a lack of action on climate change, some students are researching dimming the sun despite the pushback from other scientists.
Nonprofits and think tanks are creating a governance platform that could bring consistency and oversight to projects that reflect sunlight away from the ...
Desperate times call for desperate measures. In recent years and in the face of unprecedented changes in the climate system, some previously unknown and risky solutions have been proposed to put a ...
The group invited about 30 experts to plan for a likely wave of new funding to study reflecting sun rays. Climate scientists, environmental activists and philanthropists met privately last month to ...
If we started geoengineering in 2020, what would temperatures look like 10 20 30 40 50 years from then? Mouse over an area for more information. If we started geoengineering in 2020, what would ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The Tennessee legislature is on track to pass a bill that would prohibit anyone from combating climate change through atmospheric dispersal within the borders of the state.
Iowa lawmakers are considering a ban on geoengineering, despite accusations by some opponents that the legislation indulges in conspiracy theories.
Solar geoengineering is widely viewed as risky business. Yet new research, published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change, acknowledges these problems but finds a potential fix: only deploying ...
Co-founder Andrew Song of solar geoengineering startup Make Sunsets holds a weather balloon filled with helium, air and sulfur dioxide at a park in Reno, Nevada, United States on February 12, ...
Here’s the thing about the stratosphere, the region between six and 31 miles up in the sky: If you really wanted to, you could turn it pink. Or green. Or what have you. If you sprayed some colorant up ...
With each passing year that the world fails to get a grip on its carbon emissions, the threat of climate change increases. For some, that makes geoengineering—a technique to artificially cool the ...