When soaring temperatures, extreme weather, and catastrophic wildfires hit the headlines, people start asking for quick fixes to climate change. The U.S. government just announced the first awards ...

Could blocking the sun help reverse climate change? Scientists say maybe, thanks to solar geoengineering. The emerging solution is designed to cool the Earth and prevent catastrophic warming. Despite ...

Republican lawmakers advanced a bill to ban weather-modification projects in a state House committee Tuesday after amending it to remove nearly all of its enforcement provisions. House Bill 2056 drew ...

A combined team of Earth scientists and climate specialists at the University of California San Diego and the National Center for Atmospheric Research has found via modeling that geoengineering ...

Companies are coming up with plans to block out the sun - Private companies are jumping into the race to deploy particles to ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The thought of purposefully tinkering with the Earth’s climate may sound extreme or far-fetched. But as the world faces the consequences of global warming, some scientists have begun ...

There's nothing quite like going for a walk on a bright, spring day. But basking in the sunshine could soon be a thing of the past. That's because it has emerged that experts are planning on dimming ...

What would be the price tag for shielding the Earth from global warming using a chemical cloud? It might be just $1 billion to $3 billion, making a sun-reflecting project much cheaper than combating ...

Last week, we covered the efforts of a small environmental startup called Make Sunsets that was experimenting with releasing small amounts of sunlight reflecting, sulfur dioxide particles into the ...

The term refers to using man-made technologies "to artificially modify the Earth's climate," explains The Daily Beast's Ho Tran. The concept might sound "futuristic," writes Robert Litan for Foreign ...

CLIMATEWIRE | Harvard University ended a solar geoengineering research project after years of setbacks derailed efforts to infuse small parts of the sky with sunlight-blocking aerosols. The principal ...