Fed up with a lack of action on climate change, some students are researching dimming the sun despite the pushback from other scientists.

For years, climate scientists have resisted geoengineering as a way to address climate change, saying that the best way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is to stop burning fossil fuels. Scientists ...

SANTA CLARA COUNTY, Calif. – Luke Iseman and Andrew Song weren’t doing anything illegal hauling around 200-pound cylinders of sulfur dioxide in Song’s RV to pump into weather balloons. Against the law ...

SALT LAKE CITY — You can see them in the sky, the airplanes carrying customers or cargo. But maybe these planes are doing something else: spraying chemicals to bounce the heat of the sun back into the ...

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 ...

Scientists propose putting reflective aerosols into the stratosphere to reflect the sun's rays. But will this have unintended consequences? National Corporate funding for NOVA is provided by Carlisle ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. In April, in the Bay Area town of Alameda, scientists were making plans to block the sun. Not entirely or permanently, of course: Their experiment included ...

“What is the cost of inaction?” asked Cían Sherwin, founder of Real Ice, encapsulating the feeling of urgency that drives geoengineering projects to reverse Arctic sea ice loss. While the Arctic warms ...

Last April, the Trump administration effectively canceled funding for the National Climate Assessment Report, firing hundreds of scientists working on it. That assessment is vital to provide ...

In June, Florid banned cloud seeding, becoming the second state to do so, after Tennessee did the same last year when it passed a law banning the injection of substances into the atmosphere to alter ...

When private companies develop and sell solar geoengineering technologies, they draw a proprietary curtain over a planetary matter. If countries want to pursue the public good, international ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As Arizona contends with one of the most severe long-term droughts on record, scientists and water managers have considered ...