In a new working paper, Yale SOM’s Kelly Shue and Samuel Hartzmark of Boston College model how the use of reflective aerosols to cool the plane would fundamentally shift the economics of climate ...

As solar geoengineering technology becomes increasingly viable, public participation in its governance will be essential. A ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Solar geoengineering strategies are very controversial within and beyond the climate science community. It is a major step forward ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Climate scientists have been warning for decades of global warming's devastating consequences. Now that the effects of climate ...

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 ...

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Technology will thwart the doomsayers.

A conservative group is preparing to sue climate startups that aim to reflect sunlight away from the Earth, in a new campaign that could turn Republicans against potential technologies to halt rising ...

Solar geoengineering is widely viewed as risky business. Yet new research, published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change, acknowledges these problems but finds a potential fix: only deploying ...

This article is part of Troubleshooting Earth: a multi-part series that explores the bold, innovative, and potentially world-changing efforts to wield technology as a weapon against climate change.

One underappreciated, terrifying aspect of climate change is that the situation would be even worse if our air pollution weren’t cooling us. Aerosols from air pollution and smoke are providing a ...

Last Wednesday night, as I watched the climate discussions with each of the Democratic Party candidates on CNN’s Presidential Climate Town Hall, I kept asking, “Why is only Andrew Yang talking about ...