Stardust Solutions says its tiny spheres can reflect the sun’s rays without harming people or the environment. Critics say ...

A few days after a flash flood in Texas killed at least 135 people, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier promoted a new law he says will help the state avoid the same scenario. He wasn’t talking ...

More rockets launch annually, primarily Starlink satellites. Consequences for Earth's atmosphere may be more far-reaching ...

EU ministers' recent warning that solar radiation modification poses "significant risks" drew praise from those for and against research ...

In less than a decade, the number of satellites has more than doubled. There are over 18,000 satellites in orbit at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stratospheric aerosol injection, the idea of spraying sulfur dioxide into the upper atmosphere to cool the planet, is one of the most controversial topics in climate science, with scientists engaged ...

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 ...