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 ...

When a modified Korean War-era aircraft bearing an unusual payload began crisscrossing the skies over Alaska in March, it opened a new frontier in the fight against climate change. During a dozen ...

Private companies are jumping into the race to deploy particles to the atmosphere to reduce global warming, prompting ...

Editorial: Sun-dimming risks putting the planet’s thermostat under Donald Trump’s control. Better to adopt the precautionary principle with high-stakes science ...

Scientists conducted the first outdoor test of Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) technology in the U.S., aiming to reflect sunlight and cool the planet. The experiment involved spraying tiny salt ...

Jennifer Garard receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Her participation in the Sixth United Nations Environment Assembly was funded by the UN Environment ...

In the first of two episodes on geoengineering, The Conversation Weekly examines the case for repairing the climate with technological interventions. The governance of solar radiation modification ...

A congressional subcommittee spent nearly two hours on Tuesday discussing the rarely practiced but frequently talked about science of weather modification and geoengineering. Convened by the House ...

A viral headline recently claimed that Elon Musk wants to “block the sun” using space technology, framing it as humanity’s biggest energy transformation in thousands of years. The underlying idea, ...

CLIMATEWIRE | The nation's first outdoor test to limit global warming by increasing cloud cover launched Tuesday from the deck of a decommissioned aircraft carrier in the San Francisco Bay. The ...

Making informed future decisions about solar radiation modification (SRM; also known as solar geoengineering)—approaches such as stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) that would cool the climate by ...

Bills banning weather modification in Louisiana are making their way through the State Legislature. Cloud seeding is a real field of scientific study, but can be rife with misinformation. (Elise Plunk ...