As worries about a growing super El Niño mount, new findings suggest a radical solution to mitigating its impacts.

A controversial geoengineering proposal suggests that brightening clouds off South America could weaken a burgeoning El Niño, ...

Recently, USA TODAY wrote about using cloud seeding to halt hurricanes. Now, it's El Niño that scientists want to stop, this ...

First, there’s the problem of getting up into the atmosphere. Generally, the target for solar geoengineering efforts is the stratosphere, since the air there is drier and more stable, so particles ...

If global warming were an extraterrestrial adversary, it would not have to fear a diplomatically unified Earth. The past decade of climate summits in Copenhagen, Bali, Cancun, and Paris have only ...

Do we really want to play dice with our planet?

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 ...

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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 ...

With an anticipated "super" El Niño looming, a new study led by UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography considers ...

“Geoengineering” can mean a number of things, but it usually refers to the attempt to offset the rising global temperatures that result from the greenhouse effect by introducing particles in a ...

Last Wednesday night, as I watched the climate discussions with each of the Democratic Party candidates on CNN’s Presidential Climate Town Hall, I kept asking, “Why is only Andrew Yang talking about ...