Can geo-engineering restore balance, or even “give the energy transition breathing room?” Or are all technological fixes ...

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

The world’s oceans are becoming dangerously acidic. A controversial proposal would raise the pH — by mixing chemicals into ...

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

While it offers an intriguing potential balm for climate change, some experts are concerned about the risks posed by geoengineering — a mostly-hypothetical group of ideas to cool the planet, often by ...

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 ...

After decades spent studying volcanoes, Alan Robock can list 20 reasons why humans should not try to play God with the world's climate by, well, mimicking Krakatoa. Proponents of "geo-engineering" ...

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

Surprise: It’d actually be much cheaper to artificially change the world’s climate than you probably think. So cheap, in fact, that one scientist believes that some countries might soon geoengineer ...

Many of the world's nations show few signs of cutting their greenhouse gas emissions anytime soon. That's why, in recent years, more and more climate scientists have been pondering the concept of ...

Geoengineering programmes that inject aerosols into the atmosphere to cool the planet may harm wildlife. That’s according to a team of scientists from the US, whose new study suggests that suddenly ...