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

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 ...

Stardust sold geoengineering to investors. Now it needs to sell it to the public.

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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The Tennessee legislature is on track to pass a bill that would prohibit anyone from combating climate change through atmospheric dispersal within the borders of the state.

Advocates say there’s a growing ethical obligation for researchers to explore alternative solutions to climate change. Manipulating the Earth’s natural systems to counter global warming has long been ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: Marshall Brain – futurist, inventor, NCSU professor, writer and creator of “How Stuff Works” is a contributor to WRAL TechWire. Brain takes a serious as well as entertaining look at 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 ...

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 ...