Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Although many of the wilder ideas to control nature were eventually abandoned, what’s now known as geoengineering remains a ...

For years, climate scientists have resisted geoengineering as a way to address climate change, saying that the best way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is to stop burning fossil fuels. Scientists ...

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 ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. In April, in the Bay Area town of Alameda, scientists were making plans to block the sun. Not entirely or permanently, of course: Their experiment included ...

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 ...

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In June, Florid banned cloud seeding, becoming the second state to do so, after Tennessee did the same last year when it passed a law banning the injection of substances into the atmosphere to alter ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Gov. Ron DeSantis recently said he’d sign into law a ban on “weather modification activities” — such as spreading tiny ...

New studies about the Thwaites Glacier, also called the "Doomsday Glacier," have sparked a conversation about geoengineering as a climate change solution. One study published in May and led by ...

Scientists propose putting reflective aerosols into the stratosphere to reflect the sun's rays. But will this have unintended consequences? National Corporate funding for NOVA is provided by Carlisle ...

Less wealthy countries are among the most vulnerable to potential unintended side effects from climate interventions. The world’s largest solar geoengineering conference takes place this week in Cape ...