Cloud seeding does not create clouds or precipitation from clear skies. It can only be effective when clouds with the right ...

For years, climate scientists have resisted geoengineering as a way to address climate change, saying that the best way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is to stop burning fossil fuels. Scientists ...

SALT LAKE CITY — You can see them in the sky, the airplanes carrying customers or cargo. But maybe these planes are doing something else: spraying chemicals to bounce the heat of the sun back into the ...

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Solar geoengineering startups are getting serious Solar ...

As Arizona contends with one of the most severe long-term droughts on record, scientists and water managers have considered weather manipulation techniques to increase the state’s sporadic ...

Over the Northern Hemisphere’s summer, the world’s temperatures hovered near 1.5° C above pre-industrial temperatures, and the catastrophic weather events that ensued provided a preview of what might ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. In April, in the Bay Area town of Alameda, scientists were making plans to block the sun. Not entirely or permanently, of course: Their experiment included ...

When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently said he’d sign into law a ban on “weather modification activities” — such as spreading tiny particles into the air from aircraft to control sunlight — it raised ...

More than a dozen private companies around the world are looking to profit from extreme measures to combat global warming — filling the sky with sunlight-blocking particles, brightening clouds or ...