The sun may influence Earth's climate, but it is not causing climate change. The sun may be the key to all life on Earth, but it is not the reason global temperatures have been rapidly rising in the ...

Vast sums of private and public money are now chasing a once-fringe idea: deliberately reflecting a slice of sunlight back ...

For how long can the Earth support complex life before entering an irreversible zone from an environmental perspective?

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Annika Seppälä, Senior Lecturer in Geophysics, ...

Given that backdrop, I was struck by Bill Gates’ recent announcement of a major — and decidedly optimistic — shift in his thinking about climate change. “We’ve made great progress” on addressing ...

Blotting out the sun might not fix climate change, but it could pause the warming process. The idea of using planes to “geoengineer” the climate by spreading sunlight-reflecting aerosols throughout ...

This week in Science we take a closer look at what climate change it is and its possible effects toward extreme weather and species extinction, as well as how Cornell scientists are monitoring it to ...