A study reveals that geoengineering plans to save polar ice would not work and could cause environmental damage.

The idea of “solar geoengineering,” or shooting untold dollars’ worth of particles into the stratosphere to reduce the warming of the Sun, has long been seen as a last resort for tackling a growing ...

Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution released 65,000 litres of sodium hydroxide into the Gulf of Maine last summer, making it the first federally permitted test of whether adding ...

Snowpiercer, a graphic novel, movie and TV series, imagines a different deep-freeze scenario: Geoengineering gone haywire. To mitigate global warming, scientists released aerosols into the atmosphere ...

Whether it's cloud seeding or covering the Arctic in tiny glass beads, there’s little standing in the way of weather ...

Fed up with a lack of action on climate change, some students are researching dimming the sun despite the pushback from other scientists.

As solar geoengineering gains attention, questions are emerging about how slightly dimmer sunlight could affect human health, from vitamin D levels and sleep cycles to the viral “chemtrail” claims ...

Of the long list of strategies scientists have suggested to combat global warming, solar geoengineering may be among the most controversial. Of the long list of strategies scientists have suggested to ...

Co-founder Andrew Song of solar geoengineering startup Make Sunsets holds a weather balloon filled with helium, air and sulfur dioxide at a park in Reno, Nevada, United States on February 12, ...

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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The Tennessee legislature is on track to pass a bill that would prohibit anyone from combating climate change through atmospheric dispersal within the borders of the state.

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 ...