The idea of artificially lowering the planet’s temperature is gaining supporters and hitting political opposition.

Private startups are starting to embrace the concept of solar geoengineering—essentially, finding a way to cool the planet ...

However, geoengineering might result in unintended consequences such as negatively impacting precipitation patterns and atmospheric ozone concentrations. And if geoengineering is put into effect on a ...

In an unprecedented attempt to influence the global climate, Stardust Solutions plans to deploy reflective particles into the ...

Stardust Solutions wants to dim the sun. Scientists are worried.

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 ...

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 ...

A scientist is warning against regulatory attempts to ban geoengineering, which seeks to alter the climate as global warming threatens to make the planet less ...

A team of scientists built models simulating the planet’s future — and they found that geoengineering alone won’t be able to save us from the disastrous effects of climate change. Even though 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 ...

Climate change is creating impacts that are widespread and severe — and in many cases irreversible — for individuals, communities, economies, and ecosystems around the world. 2020 was one of the three ...

While humans have unintentionally been altering Earth's climate for centuries, some scientists have begun to study how to intentionally hack the globe to cool the overheated planet. He reminds us that ...