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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 ...

The potential role of solar geoengineering strategies in addressing global warming is a matter of current scientific and societal debate. Some strategies could reduce the surface temperature of Earth, ...

Scientists for several years have studied the theoretical effectiveness of injecting sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere to reflect heat from the sun and offset Earth's warming temperatures. But they ...

As climate change intensifies, scientists around the world are exploring new ways to cool the planet. One idea attracting increasing attention is solar geoengineering, a set of technologies designed ...

The United States should lead an international effort to prohibit the use of solar geoengineering, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, Roger Pielke Jr., told members of Congress on ...

Climate change is creating impacts that are widespread and severe — and in many cases irreversible — for individuals, communities, economies, and ecosystems around the world. 2020 was one of the three ...

Policymakers in the U.S. and European Union are considering technologies that limit sunlight as a potential tool to curb global warming — even if they're not yet willing to publicly say so, two former ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Solar geoengineering is a controversial strategy for cooling down the planet. Researchers want to know if it can ...

The Paris Agreement feels like a long time ago. When countries signed the deal in 2015, they set 1.5C as a watermark for the rise from pre-industrial temperatures. If reached, the severest symptoms of ...

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While governments and companies grapple with ways to reduce carbon emissions, there’s growing interest in geoengineering as a way of mitigating rising temperatures. One possible method: stratospheric ...