A controversial geoengineering approach may help the Amazon rainforest store more carbon, but the benefits come with risks.

(Reuters) - As the world struggles to renounce its burning of fossil fuels, scientists are studying whether atmospheric geoengineering could help limit warming and avert climate catastrophe. One ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pexels Fed up with a lack of action on climate change, some students are researching dimming the sun despite the pushback from ...

Somewhere along the British coastline, possibly within the next year, a team of atmospheric scientists plans to point ...

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 ...

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 ...

Geoengineering could protect the Amazon rainforest from climate change, new research shows. Stratospheric aerosol injection ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 investigator, ...

Aug 10 – Geoengineering science is advancing, but the question remains – should we use it? The UN climate report released Monday presents a major leap forward in predicting how geoengineering to limit ...