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

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

For years researchers have been looking for viable solutions to our current climate crisis. As the years go by without any significant progress being made to counteract climate change, some ...

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 ...

On a special episode (first released on May 23, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: As the world warms and aspirations to reach net-zero carbon emissions slide further and further away, climate scientists ...

Solar engineering would see reflective particles released into the stratosphere to reflect the sun's light back into space, theoretically cooling the planet. A new coalition of scholars wants the ...

If we started geoengineering in 2020, what would temperatures look like 10 20 30 40 50 years from then? Mouse over an area for more information. If we started geoengineering in 2020, what would ...

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 ...

Desperate times call for desperate measures. In recent years and in the face of unprecedented changes in the climate system, some previously unknown and risky solutions have been proposed to put a ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The following is a guest post by Joshua Horton, research director, geoengineering, ...

Our skies belong to We the People, not to corporations, contractors, or agencies experimenting with our weather,” said State ...

A group of British scientists had a plan for a groundbreaking geoengineering test. Working from a disused military airstrip in Norfolk, UK, they would attach a 3,000-foot hose to a helium balloon, ...