Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pexels Fed up with a lack of action on climate change, some students are researching dimming the sun despite the pushback from ...

Efforts to cool the planet may do more than lower temperatures, they could fundamentally reshape Earth’s climate systems.

The group invited about 30 experts to plan for a likely wave of new funding to study reflecting sun rays. Climate scientists, environmental activists and philanthropists met privately last month to ...

The National Academy of Sciences released a major report chronicling six techniques to turn the oceans into carbon dioxide vacuums. Reading time 4 minutes The U.S. government has moved one step closer ...

Of the long list of strategies scientists have suggested to combat global warming, solar geoengineering may be among the most controversial. Of the long list of strategies scientists have suggested to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here’s the thing about the stratosphere, the region between six and 31 miles up in the sky: If you really wanted to, you could turn it pink. Or green. Or what have you. If you sprayed some colorant up ...

On a special episode (first released on May 23, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: As the world warms and aspirations to reach net-zero carbon emissions slide further and further away, climate scientists ...

Aug 10 – Geoengineering science is advancing, but the question remains – should we use it? The UN climate report released Monday presents a major leap forward in predicting how geoengineering to limit ...