Private companies are jumping into the race to deploy particles to the atmosphere to reduce global warming, prompting ...

Could blocking the sun help reverse climate change? Scientists say maybe, thanks to solar geoengineering. The emerging solution is designed to cool the Earth and prevent catastrophic warming. Despite ...

Picture this: As a Phoenix heat wave is killing hundreds of people, an entrepreneur approaches the city’s mayor with an extraordinary offer. The company will spray enough aerosols into the sky to ...

Imagine waking up one morning to discover that someone has been altering the atmosphere above your head without asking.

When US startup Make Sunsets released two weather balloons into the skies above Mexico’s Baja California peninsula last year, it kicked up a fierce debate about one of the world’s most controversial ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. James W. Hurrell, Professor and Scott Presidential ...

While governments and companies grapple with ways to reduce carbon emissions, there’s growing interest in geoengineering as a way of mitigating rising temperatures. One possible method: stratospheric ...

(Reuters) - As the world struggles to renounce its burning of fossil fuels, scientists are studying whether atmospheric geoengineering could help limit warming and avert climate catastrophe. One ...

The potential role of solar geoengineering strategies in addressing global warming is a matter of current scientific and societal debate. Some strategies could reduce the surface temperature of Earth, ...

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Solar geoengineering could start soon if it starts small ...