Large-scale interventions to control weather are a step into the unknown, says Chris Wright, and may also allow the worst emitters to continue unchecked ...

A Greenland ice core shows that volcanoes quietly release at least three times as much sulfur into the Arctic atmosphere than ... timescales the amount of sulfate aerosols released during passive ...

Commercial aircraft could be used to cool the planet by injecting particles into the atmosphere. A recent study reveals that this method could be implemented more quickly. Researchers ...

The only way to do that, most in the field agree, is to inject aerosols into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight and heat back into space. The leading candidate for such an endeavor right now is ...

Injecting these aerosols into the stratosphere — the layer of Earth's atmosphere that sits between ... then condenses to form fine sulfate aerosols that reflect sunlight back to space ...

And there was a lot of soot going into the atmosphere as a consequence ... into the earth system in this manner, injecting sulfate aerosols into the stratosphere where we don't know what the ...

While the concept of injecting sulfate aerosols into the atmosphere emerged as a potential solution, scientists have raised concerns about the environmental consequences. Artificially introducing ...

Now researchers have simulated what the sky may look like after injecting a blanket of various aerosols into the upper atmosphere (Environ ... with the injection of sulfate, calcium carbonate ...

Spending decades grinding up something approaching a quadrillion dollars worth of diamonds into dust ... particles in the atmosphere — is known as stratospheric aerosol injection.

"We've never seen anything like it," said atmospheric scientist Luis Millán, who works at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Millán led a study of the water the volcano sent into the sky ...