Geoengineering is defined as some emerging technologies that could manipulate the environment and partially offset some of ...

If global warming were an extraterrestrial adversary, it would not have to fear a diplomatically unified Earth. The past decade of climate summits in Copenhagen, Bali, Cancun, and Paris have only ...

A solar geoengineering technology that dims sunlight to brighten the clouds may help reduce the impacts of weather events like Super El Niño ...

Do we really want to play dice with our planet?

When it comes to finding solutions to climate change, there's no shortage of technologies vying for attention, from renewable energy to electric vehicles to nuclear energy. One such contender, solar ...

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 ...

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It sounds like a drastic course of action: inject stuff high into Earth’s atmosphere to reflect a little sunlight and help counteract global warming. Then again, injecting a bunch of greenhouse gas ...

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As concerns grow about how quickly the world can curb greenhouse-gas emissions, some scientists want to research an additional approach to the problem of global warming: solar geoengineering. In ...

The year is 2055, and climate change has fully set in. Months-long heat waves regularly kill infants and the elderly, and food shortages are testing governments on every continent. While the world is ...

Stratospheric aerosol geoengineering is the idea that adding a layer of aerosol particles to the upper atmosphere can reduce climate changes caused by greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. Previous ...