Experts simulated a rush to deploy solar geoengineering against global warming. The science was the least of their problems.

The approach would send sulfur dioxide high in the atmosphere so it can reflect some sunlight back into space.

Last Wednesday night, as I watched the climate discussions with each of the Democratic Party candidates on CNN’s Presidential Climate Town Hall, I kept asking, “Why is only Andrew Yang talking about ...

Some say the concept is complete fantasy, but a detailed analysis suggests that the falling cost of rocket launches might ...

Desperate times call for desperate measures. In recent years and in the face of unprecedented changes in the climate system, some previously unknown and risky solutions have been proposed to put a ...

Solar geoengineering is widely viewed as risky business. Yet new research, published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change, acknowledges these problems but finds a potential fix: only deploying ...

This story originally appeared on Reveal and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Next month, a Silicon Valley engineer plans to head out on a snowmobile from Barrow, on the northern tip of ...

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has put millions of dollars into research on solar geoengineering, a set of ideas for cooling ...

This article is part of Troubleshooting Earth: a multi-part series that explores the bold, innovative, and potentially world-changing efforts to wield technology as a weapon against climate change.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the global energy transition and net-zero emissions. Engineering our way to a livable planet is a challenge we can ...

When it comes to finding solutions to climate change, there's no shortage of technologies vying for attention, from renewable energy to electric vehicles to nuclear energy. One such contender, solar ...

Stratospheric aerosol geoengineering is the idea that adding a layer of aerosol particles to the upper atmosphere can reduce climate changes caused by greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. Previous ...