Solar geoengineering could halve the economic cost of climate change, but stopping it would cause temperatures to rebound ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The west coast of North America is one area the Marine Cloud Brightening Program has considered for a 3,900-square mile solar ...

Vast sums of private and public money are now chasing a once-fringe idea: deliberately reflecting a slice of sunlight back ...

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Solar geoengineering startups are getting serious Solar ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SANTA CLARA COUNTY, Calif. – Luke Iseman and Andrew Song weren’t doing anything illegal hauling around 200-pound cylinders of sulfur dioxide in Song’s RV to pump into weather balloons. Against the law ...