EU ministers' recent warning that solar radiation modification poses "significant risks" drew praise from those for and against research ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Climate scientists have been warning for decades of global warming's devastating consequences. Now that the effects of climate ...

Government supporting new geoengineering techniques as race against unregulated companies seeking to capitalise on need for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Solar geoengineering is widely viewed as risky business. Yet new research, published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change, acknowledges these problems but finds a potential fix: only deploying ...

A growing body of research has explored the ability of solar geoengineering to reduce physical climate changes. But much less is known about how solar geoengineering could affect the ecosystem and, ...

With each passing year that the world fails to get a grip on its carbon emissions, the threat of climate change increases. For some, that makes geoengineering—a technique to artificially cool the ...

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 ...

This post was written by Jeff Goodell for Grist.org. The other day, an MSNBC producer asked me, “What is the connection between this coal-mine disaster in West Virginia and geoengineering the planet?” ...