Co-founder Andrew Song of solar geoengineering startup Make Sunsets holds a weather balloon filled with helium, air and sulfur dioxide at a park in Reno, Nevada, United States on February 12, ...

The field of solar geoengineering revolves around the idea of cooling the globe via the injection of aerosols to reflect ...

Last year a team of Harvard scientists had an idea involving a large balloon and a small amount of chalk dust. They devised an experiment in which a weather balloon would release less than 2 kilograms ...

Over the Northern Hemisphere’s summer, the world’s temperatures hovered near 1.5° C above pre-industrial temperatures, and the catastrophic weather events that ensued provided a preview of what might ...

SANTA CLARA COUNTY, Calif. – Luke Iseman and Andrew Song weren’t doing anything illegal hauling around 200-pound cylinders of sulfur dioxide in Song’s RV to pump into weather balloons. Against the law ...

What good are governments if they keep fumbling the global climate response? This month, the Trump administration repealed the US EPA’s Endangerment Finding, which designated carbon dioxide as a ...

Editor’s note: Marshall Brain – futurist, inventor, NCSU professor, writer and creator of “How Stuff Works” is a contributor to WRAL TechWire. Brain takes a serious as well as entertaining look at a ...

The group invited about 30 experts to plan for a likely wave of new funding to study reflecting sun rays. Climate scientists, environmental activists and philanthropists met privately last month to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In January, an Iowa Senate subcommittee unanimously advanced Senate Study Bill 3010 to prohibit solar geoengineering and other ...

A Sept. 9 Instagram video (direct link, archive link) features a weather forecast map showing a storm off the East Coast of the U.S. "Category 5 Hurricane Lee," narrates a man over the video. "It is a ...

The agency is being asked to strengthen a toothless rule that requires only a heads-up before experiments to modify the weather. Picture this: As a Phoenix heat wave is killing hundreds of people, an ...

When Florida 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 ...