While it offers an intriguing potential balm for climate change, some experts are concerned about the risks posed by geoengineering — a mostly-hypothetical group of ideas to cool the planet, often by ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Companies are coming up with plans to block out the sun - Private companies are jumping into the race to deploy particles to ...

After decades spent studying volcanoes, Alan Robock can list 20 reasons why humans should not try to play God with the world's climate by, well, mimicking Krakatoa. Proponents of "geo-engineering" ...

The Tennessee state House of Representatives passed a bill Monday designed to prevent geoengineering, the practice of intentionally modifying the atmosphere to counteract global warming. The bill, ...

Billionaire philanthropist — and perennial right-wing target — George Soros has come out in support of solar geoengineering, a group of experimental technologies intended to dim the Sun and thus slow ...

A new study shows that dispersing minerals into oceans to stem global warming would be an inefficient and impractical process. By Kent Smith Installing a giant mirror in space to block sunlight, ...

Many of the world's nations show few signs of cutting their greenhouse gas emissions anytime soon. That's why, in recent years, more and more climate scientists have been pondering the concept of ...

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 ...