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 ...

Researchers studying ways to offset rising global temperatures have zeroed in on a deceptively simple target: blocking roughly 1% of the sunlight that reaches Earth. The approach, known as solar ...

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, a bunch of techniques that aim to mask some effects of climate change by blocking sunlight, wasn’t on the agenda for this month’s COP30. It should have been. A record-breaking ...

EDF's new grantees conduct policy-relevant research using data from past events to understand the potential impacts of Solar Radiation Modification (SRM).

Sun-dimming risks putting the planet’s thermostat under Donald Trump’s control. Better to adopt the precautionary principle with high-stakes science It is fitting that this week’s UN environment talks ...

A viral headline recently claimed that Elon Musk wants to “block the sun” using space technology, framing it as humanity’s biggest energy transformation in thousands of years. The underlying idea, ...

Solar geoengineering, a bunch of techniques that aim to mask some effects of climate change by blocking sunlight, isn’t on the agenda for this month’s COP30, the U.N. climate conference. It ought to ...

Powerful solar activity released by the sun reached Earth Monday, causing colorful auroral displays and GPS issues for aircraft, according to the National Weather Service’s Space Weather Prediction ...