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

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

One of the difficulties of geoengineering is that in theory a single entity, like a startup company, could make decisions that have a widespread effect on the planet. And in the last few years, we’ve ...

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

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

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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 ...

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 ...

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist based in London, England and author of a new book about climate change, Intervention ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...