Imagine waking up one morning to discover that someone has been altering the atmosphere above your head without asking.

One of the difficulties of geoengineering is that in theory a single entity, like a startup company, could make decisions ...

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

OP-ED. As start-ups race to become the first to market with solar geoengineering, these technologies must undergo independent ...

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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 ...

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist based in London, England and author of a new book about climate change, Intervention ...

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 ...

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 ...

Solar engineering would see reflective particles released into the stratosphere to reflect the sun's light back into space, theoretically cooling the planet. A new coalition of scholars wants the ...

Crops that sustain communities and economies around the world are increasingly at risk from a changing climate. Rising temperatures and extreme weather are putting everything from staple grains and ...