This article originally appeared on Undark. In April, in the Bay Area town of Alameda, scientists were making plans to block the sun. Not entirely or permanently, of course: Their experiment included ...

Should private companies be able to dim the sun? Solar geoengineering aims to manipulate the climate by bouncing sunlight back into space. In theory, it could ease global warming. But as interest in ...

CLIMATEWIRE | A futuristic geoengineering proposal might be easier to accomplish in the real world than scientists previously thought. New research suggests that a planet-cooling strategy known as ...

Geoengineering – the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the Earth’s climate to counteract global warming – mostly exists in computer models, academic journals, and policy debates. Despite its ...