Elon Musk raises concerns that relying solely on sustainable energy might not avert extinction events. He advocates for ...

As solar geoengineering technology becomes increasingly viable, public participation in its governance will be essential. A ...

In a new working paper, Yale SOM’s Kelly Shue and Samuel Hartzmark of Boston College model how the use of reflective aerosols to cool the plane would fundamentally shift the economics of climate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Climate scientists have been warning for decades of global warming's devastating consequences. Now that the effects of climate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Solar geoengineering strategies are very controversial within and beyond the climate science community. It is a major step forward ...

Technology will thwart the doomsayers.

Solar geoengineering is widely viewed as risky business. Yet new research, published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change, acknowledges these problems but finds a potential fix: only deploying ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the global energy transition and net-zero emissions. Engineering our way to a livable planet is a challenge we can ...

This article is part of Troubleshooting Earth: a multi-part series that explores the bold, innovative, and potentially world-changing efforts to wield technology as a weapon against climate change.

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 ...

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 ...