A Texas geoengineering company is hoping to bring weather-controlling technology to their region to boost rain production and solve drought conditions. Rainwater Tech, which is based in Austin, uses a ...

For years researchers have been looking for viable solutions to our current climate crisis. As the years go by without any significant progress being made to counteract climate change, some ...

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The Tennessee state House of Representatives passed a bill Monday designed to prevent geoengineering, the practice of intentionally modifying the atmosphere to counteract global warming. The bill, ...

A research team led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego modeled a hypothetical solution to a drought that really had plagued Africa’s Sahel region in the 1970s and 80s. The solution ...

When Gov. Ron DeSantis recently said he’d sign into law a ban on “weather modification activities” — such as spreading tiny particles into the air from aircraft to control sunlight — it raised ...

Ben Kravitz receives funding relevant to this work from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Science Foundation. Hugh Hunt and Shaun Fitzgerald do not work for, ...

Humanity has managed to stabilize its carbon emissions, but they have yet to start trending downwards. It looks increasingly probable that we’re going to emit enough to commit to at least 1.5° C of ...