A brewing "super" El Nino cycle is poised to unleash heat waves, floods and drought worldwide, with the effects amplified by ...

Marine cloud brightening could cool part of the Pacific and weaken extreme El Niños, simulations suggest. But the approach could have risks.

A solar geoengineering technology that dims sunlight to brighten the clouds may help reduce the impacts of weather events like Super El Niño ...

Imagine trying to cool a warming planet with nothing more than tiny particles of chalk released high in the atmosphere. While this might sound like science fiction, more than a decade ago, Harvard ...

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 ...

British scientists planned a stratospheric particle injection test in 2011. This project, called SPICE, was cancelled due to ...

Geoengineering is defined as some emerging technologies that could manipulate the environment and partially offset some of ...

Do we really want to play dice with our planet?

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 ...

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If we started geoengineering in 2020, what would temperatures look like 10 20 30 40 50 years from then? Mouse over an area for more information. If we started geoengineering in 2020, what would ...

One underappreciated, terrifying aspect of climate change is that the situation would be even worse if our air pollution weren’t cooling us. Aerosols from air pollution and smoke are providing a ...