Could blocking the sun help reverse climate change? Scientists say maybe, thanks to solar geoengineering. The emerging solution is designed to cool the Earth and prevent catastrophic warming. Despite ...

Private companies are jumping into the race to deploy particles to the atmosphere to reduce global warming, prompting ...

Picture this: As a Phoenix heat wave is killing hundreds of people, an entrepreneur approaches the city’s mayor with an extraordinary offer. The company will spray enough aerosols into the sky to ...

Discussions of countering global warming with solar geoengineering assume that warming owing to rising greenhouse-gas concentrations can be compensated by artificially reducing the amount of sunlight ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. James W. Hurrell, Professor and Scott Presidential ...

Professor in Global Governance and Public Policy at the University of Bristol, and Co-Director, Center for Climate Change and Development, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike Chukwumerije ...

The potential role of solar geoengineering strategies in addressing global warming is a matter of current scientific and societal debate. Some strategies could reduce the surface temperature of Earth, ...

Scientists have proposed a set of guidelines to assess the feasibility of solar geoengineering scenarios (Oxford Open Clim. Change 2024, DOI: 10.1093/oxfclm/kgae010). With the guidelines, the ...

When US startup Make Sunsets released two weather balloons into the skies above Mexico’s Baja California peninsula last year, it kicked up a fierce debate about one of the world’s most controversial ...

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