They will also determine the future of an audacious idea to slow its demise. Right now, warm water is barely cresting the ...
Blotting out the sun might not fix climate change, but it could pause the warming process. The idea of using planes to “geoengineer” the climate by spreading sunlight-reflecting aerosols throughout ...
This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network. A “civil war” is brewing in polar science. As climate change rapidly melts Earth’s ice, sides are being drawn ...
Solar geoengineering could halve the economic cost of climate change, but stopping it would cause temperatures to rebound ...
Last April, the Trump administration effectively canceled funding for the National Climate Assessment Report, firing hundreds of scientists working on it. That assessment is vital to provide ...
In the tropics, the border between troposphere and stratosphere—the tropopause—sits at around 20km, far above any normal ...
Companies are coming up with plans to block out the sun - Private companies are jumping into the race to deploy particles to ...
Cloud seeding does not create clouds or precipitation from clear skies. It can only be effective when clouds with the right structure and moisture are already present. For that reason, cloud-seeding ...
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