Scientists are testing a controversial idea in the Bay Area for cooling our warming planet. In Alameda, the group is using the first technology in the country to test ways to brighten clouds in an ...

The recent abrupt reduction in shipping sulfur dioxide emissions offers the clearest test to date of a controversial geoengineering approach known as marine cloud brightening (MCB), which seeks to ...

A city council meeting in Alameda, Calif. on Tuesday will take center stage in the global controversy over whether to try cool the planet by making clouds brighter. Researchers at the University of ...

One geoengineering proposal for alleviating the extreme heat effects of global warming, the brightening of marine clouds to reflect more solar energy to space, could work in present-day conditions but ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — As levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere continue to increase, atmospheric scientists are investigating the risks and benefits of artificially shading the Earth’s surface ...

Spraying seawater into clouds to cool the planet would reduce the chances of reaching most major climate “tipping points”, but would also increase the risk of East Antarctic glacier collapse and a ...