Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pexels Fed up with a lack of action on climate change, some students are researching dimming the sun despite the pushback from ...

Efforts to cool the planet may do more than lower temperatures, they could fundamentally reshape Earth’s climate systems.

Of the long list of strategies scientists have suggested to combat global warming, solar geoengineering may be among the most controversial. Of the long list of strategies scientists have suggested to ...

The National Academy of Sciences released a major report chronicling six techniques to turn the oceans into carbon dioxide vacuums. Reading time 4 minutes The U.S. government has moved one step closer ...

Could blocking the sun help reverse climate change? Scientists say maybe, thanks to solar geoengineering. The emerging solution is designed to cool the Earth and prevent catastrophic warming. Despite ...

Advocates say there’s a growing ethical obligation for researchers to explore alternative solutions to climate change. Manipulating the Earth’s natural systems to counter global warming has long been ...

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 ...

Stratospheric aerosol injection, the idea of spraying sulfur dioxide into the upper atmosphere to cool the planet, is one of the most controversial topics in climate science, with scientists engaged ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Alex Ossola: Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Thursday, February 15th. I'm ...

Ian McEwan’s recent novel, What We Can Know, is set in a semi-underwater Britain in the year 2119. A few decades on from a ...

Here’s the thing about the stratosphere, the region between six and 31 miles up in the sky: If you really wanted to, you could turn it pink. Or green. Or what have you. If you sprayed some colorant up ...

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 ...