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

The view of Earth from space is famously familiar—bright blue ocean, swirling gyres of white clouds, touches of terrestrial ...

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

It sounds like sci-fi until you read the footnotes. “Dimming the sun” – the blunt nickname for solar geoengineering – has ...

When the balance in reflectivity shifts, “the whole circulation of the climate will shift in order to transport energy from ...

Compounds emitted by trees, diterpenes, could have a previously unconsidered impact on the formation of particles in the ...

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

Ancient explosive volcanic eruptions on Mars could help explain mysterious hints of buried ice from the Red Planet's equator, ...

Scientists are using the Netherlands' largest football stadium to model how a cheering football crowd might spread aerosols through the air by spraying fine droplets, made to resemble saliva, over the ...

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

Madison County law enforcement agencies to participate in drug drop-off program ...