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.

When private companies develop and sell solar geoengineering technologies, they draw a proprietary curtain over a planetary matter. If countries want to pursue the public good, international ...

Nonprofits and think tanks are creating a governance platform that could bring consistency and oversight to projects that ...

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 ...

On a special episode (first released on May 23, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: As the world warms and aspirations to reach net-zero carbon emissions slide further and further away, climate scientists ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Iowa lawmakers are considering a ban on geoengineering, despite accusations by some opponents that the legislation indulges ...

For more than a quarter-century, policymakers worldwide have puzzled over how to deal with climate change. If nothing else, these negotiations have served as a productive greenhouse environment for ...