Controversial technologies intended to offset the effects of atmospheric carbon should be banned until properly assessed, a group of politicians and scientists have warned, even as they urged ...

Solar geoengineering -- putting aerosols into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight and reduce global warming -- is not a fix-all for climate change but it could be one of several tools to manage climate ...

The failure of world leaders to reach key agreements at Cop27 has spurred scientists’ efforts to develop radical methods to limit global warming. Geoengineering is “one of the most controversial and ...

Global warming poses a great threat to our society, and it will continue unless a deep and rapid reduction in greenhouse gas emissions is implemented. One alternative way to counteract some of the ...

Even the most extreme geoengineering approaches will not stop sea levels from rising due to climate change, a study suggests. New research proposes that as many as 150 million people could be affected ...

The Biden administration is developing a controversial solar geoengineering research plan to the dismay of many experts As global heating escalates, the US government has set out a plan to further ...

As the world struggles to balance both energy security and emissions reduction, debates around the role of geoengineering in the global energy transition are heating up. The first type of intervention ...

According to a new analysis of geoengineering schemes, any effective program is going to need to prevent climate-linked changes in ocean levels. Can any of the five leading geoengineering candidates ...