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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

OP-ED. As start-ups race to become the first to market with solar geoengineering, these technologies must undergo independent ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Solar engineering would see reflective particles released into the stratosphere to reflect the sun's light back into space, theoretically cooling the planet. A new coalition of scholars wants the ...