First, there’s the problem of getting up into the atmosphere. Generally, the target for solar geoengineering efforts is the ...

Should we tweak the climate 🌍, or is nature wiser than our math 🤔? This video dives into the ethics of geoengineering and ...

Solar geoengineering is often portrayed as a relatively cheap and easy fix for climate change. But as researchers take a ...

Do we really want to play dice with our planet?

If global warming were an extraterrestrial adversary, it would not have to fear a diplomatically unified Earth. The past decade of climate summits in Copenhagen, Bali, Cancun, and Paris have only ...

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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 ...

Image of the Sun with the Earth in the distance on the dark background of space. Credit: Will Ludwig/C&EN/Shutterstock The first time Frank Keutsch heard about solar ...

Two companies are aiming to preserve Arctic ice by pumping water onto the sheet and letting it freeze, but only one of the ...

Last Wednesday night, as I watched the climate discussions with each of the Democratic Party candidates on CNN’s Presidential Climate Town Hall, I kept asking, “Why is only Andrew Yang talking about ...

Solar geoengineering is widely viewed as risky business. Yet new research, published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change, acknowledges these problems but finds a potential fix: only deploying ...

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 ...