This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network. A “civil war” is brewing in polar science. As climate change rapidly melts Earth’s ice, sides are being drawn ...

Blotting out the sun might not fix climate change, but it could pause the warming process. The idea of using planes to “geoengineer” the climate by spreading sunlight-reflecting aerosols throughout ...

Scientists have long opposed polar geoengineering. Some now believe it will be necessary.

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

Blocking the sun may reduce global heating – but ‘rogue actor’ could cause drought or more hurricanes, report finds Solar geoengineering could increase the ferocity of North Atlantic hurricanes, cause ...

Donald Trump’s second presidential term is likely to mean big changes for those of us interested in geoengineering. The term refers to deliberate large-scale manipulation of the climate, perhaps by ...

Five well-publicised geoengineering proposals to reduce the impact of climate change in the polar regions are “extremely unlikely” to work, and are a risk to the environment, say NZ and international ...

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 ...

Solar geoengineering could halve the economic cost of climate change, but stopping it would cause temperatures to rebound ...