Geoengineering
Solar Geoengineering 'Only Option' to Cool Planet Within Years, UN Says
The UN is calling for a large effort to study solar geoengineering, but warns it's too dangerous to implement immediately.
4 Ideas to Save the Planet With Controversial Geoengineering
Geoengineering—a technological approach to tackling climate change—is either a dangerous distraction or our best hope, depending on whom you ask.
Can Geoengineering Fix the Climate Crisis?
Young experts explain how new technologies could help in the fight against global warming—but they can't be our only hope.
Asteroid Dust Could Help Cool the Climate, Scientists Say
A new study links an asteroid collision to a cooling period and a burst of biodiversity 466 million years ago, and suggests that asteroid dust could help the climate crisis today.
Climate ‘Realists’ Are Delusional
So-called “realistic” responses to climate change don't literally refer to what’s possible. They just refer to what maintains the political status quo.
The US Opposed a UN Plan to Study Geoengineering to Combat Climate Change
A proposal to study the risks and current state of geoengineering technologies failed to materialize at a UN assembly this week.
Watch the trailer for VICE on HBO‘s “Engineering Earth”
This week on VICE on HBO, we take a look at a radical plan to save the earth from climate change
Scientists hope this volcano can save us from a fiery death
Could volcanic eruptions actually help cool the world?
‘Geostorm’ Is Less Popular With Conspiracy Theorists Than the Government Was Expecting
The National Weather Service was preparing for an influx of questions about government weather modification, but no one cares.
A 'Geoengineering Cocktail' Is the Latest Last-Ditch Proposal to Reverse Climate Change
Humans have been accidentally geoengineering for centuries. At what point should we do it on purpose?
Mathematical Formula Predicts Global Mass Extinction Event in 2100
If we put another 310 gigatons of carbon into the ocean by 2100, which we’re well on track to do, we enter “unknown territory.”