When the University of Chicago opened applications for its climate systems engineering program in early 2026, the response signaled something that would have been hard to imagine a decade ago: dozens ...

WashU researchers show diamond dust from detonation synthesis absorbs light due to carbon impurities, making it a poor candidate for solar geoengineering.

Harvard University ended a solar geoengineering research project after years of setbacks derailed efforts to infuse small parts of the sky with sunlight-blocking aerosols. The principal investigator, ...

Stardust sold geoengineering to investors. Now it needs to sell it to the public.

Stardust Solutions released safety principles as part of its effort to assuage concerns over the role of commercial interests ...

Solar geoengineering — increasing the sunlight reflected back into space to cool the planet — is gaining the attention of people looking for climate solutions. But critics say it comes with risks.

After decades of trying to stop Earth from heating up, scientists are exploring how to reverse climate change and maybe even cool the planet back down. Could clouds be brightened so they reflect more ...

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 ...

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 ...

A few days ago the European Union’s Earth Observation programme, ‘Copernicus’, made a special announcement at the end of its monthly report on the state of the climate. It said that the average global ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Gov. Ron DeSantis recently said he’d sign into law a ban on “weather modification activities” — such as spreading tiny ...