Scientists for years have argued over drastic action to cool a warming world. Among the most widely debated is stratospheric ...

Scattering microscopic particles of sulfur in the atmosphere might slow down climate change. It might also change weather patterns.

Scientists are seriously considering mimicking volcanic eruptions to mitigate global warming, but that comes with more than a ...

Once considered a fringe idea, the prospect of offsetting global warming by releasing massive quantities of ...

Scientists are taking the once-radical concept of dimming the sun through stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) seriously, ...

Tiny airborne particles known as aerosols, from biomass burning, urban pollution, and industrial emissions, can dramatically ...

For more than two decades, Earth has been quietly growing darker. Not in metaphor or mood, but in physics. Satellite data ...

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McNeill and her colleagues reviewed decades of data to highlight how difficult it would be to reproduce such effects ...

An exclusive New Scientist survey of leading scientists reveals widespread concern that schemes to tweak Earth’s atmosphere ...

Dimming the sun is a sci-fi worthy climate intervention involving injection of particles into the atmosphere - but scientists ...