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

The UN Environment Assembly recently considered a proposal to research solar geoengineering, as it’s known, an outlandish scheme to cool the Earth by blanketing the heavens with aerosols –chemicals ...

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 ...

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 ...

Investment firms have put over $100 million into developing risky technologies that could cool the planet with unknown side ...

Imagine waking up one morning to discover that someone has been altering the atmosphere above your head without asking.

When US startup Make Sunsets released two weather balloons into the skies above Mexico’s Baja California peninsula last year, it kicked up a fierce debate about one of the world’s most controversial ...

OP-ED. As start-ups race to become the first to market with solar geoengineering, these technologies must undergo independent assessments and be subject to public governance, warn Janos Pasztor and ...

Picture this: As a Phoenix heat wave is killing hundreds of people, an entrepreneur approaches the city’s mayor with an extraordinary offer. The company will spray enough aerosols into the sky to ...

The Swedish Space Corporation recently cancelled a field test of a high altitude balloon, intended to better understand solar geoengineering techniques that might be used to cool the Earth. The ...

A group of these scientists and scholars launched an open letter calling it frightening. Olivia Rosane is a freelance writer who focuses on environmental issues. Her work has appeared in EcoWatch, YES ...