10:32 a.m. April 22, 2024: An earlier version of this article said Heirloom’s Tracy, Calif., facility is 50,000 square feet. It is 15,000 square feet. Behind a chain-link fence in a corner of San ...

In the first of two episodes on geoengineering, The Conversation Weekly examines the case for repairing the climate with technological interventions. The governance of solar radiation modification ...

Bills banning weather modification in Louisiana are making their way through the State Legislature. Cloud seeding is a real field of scientific study, but can be rife with misinformation. (Elise Plunk ...

Scientists conducted the first outdoor test of Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) technology in the U.S., aiming to reflect sunlight and cool the planet. The experiment involved spraying tiny salt ...

A viral headline recently claimed that Elon Musk wants to “block the sun” using space technology, framing it as humanity’s biggest energy transformation in thousands of years. The underlying idea, ...

Jennifer Garard receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Her participation in the Sixth United Nations Environment Assembly was funded by the UN Environment ...

The Tennessee state House of Representatives passed a bill Monday designed to prevent geoengineering, the practice of intentionally modifying the atmosphere to counteract global warming. The bill, ...

A congressional subcommittee spent nearly two hours on Tuesday discussing the rarely practiced but frequently talked about science of weather modification and geoengineering. Convened by the House ...

CLIMATEWIRE | The nation's first outdoor test to limit global warming by increasing cloud cover launched Tuesday from the deck of a decommissioned aircraft carrier in the San Francisco Bay. The ...

Making informed future decisions about solar radiation modification (SRM; also known as solar geoengineering)—approaches such as stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) that would cool the climate by ...

TRACY, Calif. — Behind a chain-link fence in a corner of San Joaquin County sits one of California’s — and perhaps the world’s — best hopes for combating climate change. Here at the nation’s first ...