A proposed technique to counter global warming by spraying sun-reflecting particles near the poles would cause commercial ...

First, there’s the problem of getting up into the atmosphere. Generally, the target for solar geoengineering efforts is the stratosphere, since the air there is drier and more stable, so particles ...

We get into whether solar sunshades could harm crops, what international efforts around solar geoengineering look like, and ...

Scientists have a word for how we sense ourselves from the inside: interoception. Today, thanks to a 2021 Nobel Prize and new tools that can map internal signaling across the body, research into ...

Humans have long sought to geoengineer the Earth’s environment. Tim Flannery outlines a few of the wildest ideas from the 20th century ...

Should we tweak the climate 🌍, or is nature wiser than our math 🤔? This video dives into the ethics of geoengineering and ...

The Colorado River's prolonged decline is forcing difficult tradeoffs among agriculture, cities, hydropower, and new ...

Image of the Sun with the Earth in the distance on the dark background of space. Credit: Will Ludwig/C&EN/Shutterstock The first time Frank Keutsch heard about solar ...

Scientists detected gases on exoplanet K2-18b linked to life on Earth. The James Webb Space Telescope's future results show a ...

Researchers recently performed the first scientific test of sea ice thickening in the field, but there remains a big question ...

Do we really want to play dice with our planet?

Private companies want to reflect the Sun to cool the planet. But scientists fear the geoengineering technology could disrupt monsoon rains, on which a billion people depend.