First, there’s the problem of getting up into the atmosphere. Generally, the target for solar geoengineering efforts is the ...

Most people have experienced a heat wave on land. But heat waves can strike in the ocean too. And as the planet continues to warm, marine heat waves are growing longer and deadlier, hurting the ...

Private companies want to reflect the Sun to cool the planet. But scientists fear the geoengineering technology could disrupt ...

Solar geoengineering is often portrayed as a relatively cheap and easy fix for climate change. But as researchers take a ...

Two companies are aiming to preserve Arctic ice by pumping water onto the sheet and letting it freeze, but only one of the ...

We go down the conspiracy rabbit hole so you don’t have to. Across the country, anti-geoengineering bills are being proposed ...

Image of the Sun with the Earth in the distance on the dark background of space. Credit: Will Ludwig/C&EN/Shutterstock The first time Frank Keutsch heard about solar ...

Do we really want to play dice with our planet?

It sounds like a drastic course of action: inject stuff high into Earth’s atmosphere to reflect a little sunlight and help counteract global warming. Then again, injecting a bunch of greenhouse gas ...

Last week in Monterey, California, hundreds of scientists, environmental groups, think-tank types, and philosophers attended the Asilomar International Conference on Climate Intervention Technologies.

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 ...

While humans have unintentionally been altering Earth's climate for centuries, some scientists have begun to study how to intentionally hack the globe to cool the overheated planet. He reminds us that ...