Imagine waking up one morning to discover that someone has been altering the atmosphere above your head without asking.

Private companies are jumping into the race to deploy particles to the atmosphere to reduce global warming, prompting ...

While it offers an intriguing potential balm for climate change, some experts are concerned about the risks posed by geoengineering — a mostly-hypothetical group of ideas to cool the planet, often by ...

The challenges and issues involved in tinkering with the earth's ecosystem have been highlighted in three UK projects on geo-engineering. University of Leeds Three UK projects - IAGP, led by the ...

Investment firms have put over $100 million into developing risky technologies that could cool the planet with unknown side ...

As politicians edge towards agreeing a new international climate deal in 2015, policymakers are increasingly considering a broad sweep of policy options to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions – ...

Artificially altering earth’s climate – or geoengineering – might have found a new fan this weekend in the shape of Charles Clover, writing in the Sunday Times. While “blotting out the sun” might be ...

On a small Indonesian island in April 1815, a volcano changed the course of human history. The ‘super-colossal’ eruption of Mount Tambora was the most violent volcanic eruption ever recorded, blasting ...

Editorial: Sun-dimming risks putting the planet’s thermostat under Donald Trump’s control. Better to adopt the precautionary principle with high-stakes science ...

Representatives discussed the proposed project at the Science Festival in Bradford I'm not too keen on raising the same kind of point in successive articles, but the news that UK scientists are to ...

As global warming worsens, the idea of vast projects to alter the Earth's environment is moving from fantasy to necessity. In the 1960s, two Russian scientists set out ambitious plans to reshape the ...