Physicists are fond of Gedankenexperimente—thought experiments that are difficult or impossible to perform in the real world. Schrödinger’s cat is a well-known example of a thought experiment, used to ...

The British government is expected to approve new experiments in the coming weeks aimed at dimming sunlight as a potential solution to curb global warming — despite the fact that England averages just ...

Governments and philanthropists are quietly assembling one of the most audacious climate projects yet: a roughly $75 million push to see whether humanity can cool a heating planet by reflecting a ...

The cleanest chamber ever built is allowing researchers at CERN to track the microscopic processes governing cloud formation, finds Matthew Chalmers Clean climate The CLOUD experiment is sensitive to ...

Woods Hole researchers, Adam Subhas (left) and Chris Murray, conducted a series of lab experiments earlier this year to test the impact of an alkaline substance, known as sodium hydroxide, on copepods ...

A team of researchers at the University of Miami has developed a global atmospheric modeling framework that blends powerful research capabilities with accessibility for students and scientists alike.

The world’s largest association of earth and space scientists is calling for more transparency and community engagement for climate experiments that would alter the planet’s atmosphere. The American ...

When it comes to climate change, to invoke one of Al Gore’s favorite sayings, the biggest challenge is not what we don’t know, but what we know for sure but just isn’t so. Two new studies show that ...

Earth system models (ESMs) integrate the interactions of atmosphere, ocean, land, ice, and biosphere to estimate the state of regional and global climate under a wide variety of conditions. A model ...

Climate change is already fueling dangerous heat waves, raising sea levels and transforming the oceans. Even if countries ...

Austrian artist Christoph Schwarz's debut feature film follows him living a year without money: "This is my starting point for many projects – I come up with some kind of adventure which I am ...