The UN Environment Assembly recently considered a proposal to research solar geoengineering, as it’s known, an outlandish scheme to cool the Earth by blanketing the heavens with aerosols –chemicals ...

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

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

For years researchers have been looking for viable solutions to our current climate crisis. As the years go by without any significant progress being made to counteract climate change, some ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Scientists aim to reclaim thousands of hectares of desert using cyanobacteria that can stabilise sand and create foundation ...

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

A group of British scientists had a plan for a groundbreaking geoengineering test. Working from a disused military airstrip in Norfolk, UK, they would attach a 3,000-foot hose to a helium balloon, ...