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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 ...

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 ...

When it comes to finding solutions to climate change, there's no shortage of technologies vying for attention, from renewable energy to electric vehicles to nuclear energy. One such contender, solar ...

From top left clockwise: Mohammed Usrof is founder of the Palestinian Institute For Climate Strategy. Disha Ravi is co-founder of Fridays For Future India. Heleen Bruggink is co-founder of Mind Our ...

It's possible to start a subscale deployment in just a few years. The climate effects would be tiny, but the geopolitical impact could be significant. For half a century, climate researchers have ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Countries tried and failed to establish tougher ground rules for solar geoengineering. Countries tried and failed ...

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, ...

The Environmental Defense Fund’s research effort is a significant endorsement of the contentious field of solar radiation management. One of the nation’s most influential environmental groups plans to ...

Investment firms have put over $100 million into developing risky technologies that could cool the planet with unknown side effects.

The agency is being asked to strengthen a toothless rule that requires only a heads-up before experiments to modify the weather. Picture this: As a Phoenix heat wave is killing hundreds of people, an ...