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 ...

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 ...

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

Geoengineering does little to defuse most of the risks that really matter for people – and it runs the risk of making some harms worse ...

We disagree with your view that research into solar geoengineering as a means to cool the planet should be given “a chance” (Nature 593, 167; 2021). Your position ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Alex Ossola: Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Thursday, February 15th. I'm ...

An April 16 Instagram video (direct link, archived link) shows different cloud formations and airplane condensation trails. “Geoengineering,” reads text in the video. “Watch the blue sky and ‘sun’ ...

One underappreciated, terrifying aspect of climate change is that the situation would be even worse if our air pollution weren’t cooling us. Aerosols from air pollution and smoke are providing a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty For the past few decades, the entire planet has been conducting an ...

Since 1979, Arctic ice has shrunk by 1.35 million square miles, a new JPL study found ice loss in Greenland is far worse than previously thought and Antarctic ice is now at the lowest level since ...

On the basis of current carbon emissions rates and climate policies, average global temperatures are projected to increase to 2.9°C above preindustrial averages by the end of the century. Such an ...