Vast sums of private and public money are now chasing a once-fringe idea: deliberately reflecting a slice of sunlight back ...

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

The potential role of solar geoengineering strategies in addressing global warming is a matter of current scientific and societal debate. Some strategies could reduce the surface temperature of Earth, ...

Scientists have proposed a set of guidelines to assess the feasibility of solar geoengineering scenarios (Oxford Open Clim. Change 2024, DOI: 10.1093/oxfclm/kgae010). With the guidelines, the ...

We must not let geoengineering be shaped behind closed doors. Climate justice demands an inclusive approach ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. James W. Hurrell, Professor and Scott Presidential ...

SALT LAKE CITY — You can see them in the sky, the airplanes carrying customers or cargo. But maybe these planes are doing something else: spraying chemicals to bounce the heat of the sun back into the ...

Professor in Global Governance and Public Policy at the University of Bristol, and Co-Director, Center for Climate Change and Development, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike Chukwumerije ...

Last week, the New York Times reported on a nascent U.S. government effort to build a detection system for solar geoengineering. Also known as solar radiation modification (SRM) or stratospheric ...

Over the Northern Hemisphere’s summer, the world’s temperatures hovered near 1.5° C above pre-industrial temperatures, and the catastrophic weather events that ensued provided a preview of what might ...

"Research on various solar geoengineering methods has been going on for a few decades now, but there hasn't been a formal assessment collating all the information in one place suitable for policy ...