A proposed technique to counter global warming by spraying sun-reflecting particles near the poles would cause commercial ...

First, there’s the problem of getting up into the atmosphere. Generally, the target for solar geoengineering efforts is the stratosphere, since the air there is drier and more stable, so particles ...

Scientists have a word for how we sense ourselves from the inside: interoception. Today, thanks to a 2021 Nobel Prize and new tools that can map internal signaling across the body, research into ...

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 ...

Do we really want to play dice with our planet?

We get into whether solar sunshades could harm crops, what international efforts around solar geoengineering look like, and ...

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

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Two companies are aiming to preserve Arctic ice by pumping water onto the sheet and letting it freeze, but only one of the trials found that this delayed melting in the summer ...

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 ...

One underappreciated, terrifying aspect of climate change is that the situation would be even worse if our air pollution weren’t cooling us. Aerosols from air pollution and smoke are providing a ...

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 ...