Tagged With GeoEngineering

Any hope of keeping Earth habitable now requires sucking carbon back out of the atmosphere, a new study found

Aylin Woodward

An engineer has devised a way to stop Arctic ice from melting by scattering millions of tiny glass beads to reflect sunlight away

Aylin Woodward

A team of designers wants to build an iceberg-making submarine to pop out 'ice babies' and combat sea-level rise

Morgan McFall-Johnsen

Here's how we'll control the weather in 100 years

Uma Sharma, Alyssa Pagano

A rogue country could take planet-hacking into its own hands to alter the climate — and some experts worry it could lead to war

Aylin Woodward

We’re altering the climate so severely that we’ll soon face apocalyptic consequences. Here are 11 last-ditch ways we could hack the planet to reverse that trend.

Aylin Woodward

Presidential candidate Andrew Yang's climate plan includes geoengineering, a controversial technique that he says could lead to war

Aylin Woodward

Harvard scientists will soon send chemicals into the atmosphere to test whether a last-ditch planet-hacking plan could keep Earth habitable

Peter Kotecki

10 of the biggest risks to humanity's survival in the next 50 years, from nuclear war to supervolcanoes

Peter Kotecki

There's almost no chance humanity will act quickly enough to prevent catastrophic climate change, so here are the geoengineering techniques that might cool the planet

Kevin Loria

Scientists think a giant artificial wall propped up under Antarctica's ice sheets could stop catastrophic sea-level rise

Kevin Loria

Volkswagen blasted unproven ‘hail cannons’ at the sky to prevent storms, and farmers are accusing them of causing drought

Kevin Loria

There's a 95% chance the world will warm beyond a crucial tipping point -- here's what that means

Kevin Loria

There's a last-resort 'planet-hacking' plan to make Earth habitable for longer -- but scientists warn it could have dramatic consequences

Kevin Loria

'You terrify me': TED speakers duke it out over a plan to release massive amounts of chalk into the atmosphere

Ariel Schwartz

There was a nutty German plot to drain the Mediterranean sea and merge Europe and Africa

Rafi Letzter

This radical atmospheric hack could cool our planet super fast

Sarah Kramer

Bill Nye says bubbling air into Earth's oceans might save the planet from ourselves

Julia Calderone

The CIA Wants To Control The Weather Through 'Geoengineering'

Kyle Russell

A California Businessman Illegally Attempted The World's Largest Geoengineering Project In The Pacific

Martin Lukacs