A secretive team of scientists is working on an unprecedented plan to fill the atmosphere with tiny particles that imitate a volcanic eruption and block out the sun. It might save humanity, or it ...

If someone were trying to deliberately tamper with the earth's atmosphere, would we even know it? We will if the scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have anything to do ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Last week, the New York Times reported on a nascent U.S. government effort to build a detection system for solar geoengineering. Also known as solar radiation modification (SRM) or stratospheric ...

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 ...

Private companies are jumping into the race to deploy particles to the atmosphere to reduce global warming, prompting enthusiasm from investors and concerns from some scientists, Josh Marcus reports ...