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 ...

When engineers and planners design roads, bridges and dams, they rely on hydrological models intended to protect ...

The British researcher is calling for global regulations to test extreme measures against climate change, such as marine ...

Researchers conducting an experiment in Alameda to determine the feasibility of mitigating global warming by spraying sea salt particles into the air are looking at their next steps after the city ...

COPPER MOUNTAIN, Colo. — Something is happening at the Copper Mountain Resort – they've turned 550 acres of ski runs into a carbon sequestration experiment. The resorts ecologist and sustainability ...

Instead of sulfur dioxide, the University of Washington researchers are using specially designed nozzles to spray misted seawater containing tiny particles of sea salt over the deck of the Hornet.

Companies are coming up with plans to block out the sun - Private companies are jumping into the race to deploy particles to ...

To cool our planet in the wake of climate change, some scientists have advocated for blocking sunlight by using clouds as giant reflectors. But early forays into these feats of so-called marine cloud ...

FILE - Groundwater squirts up during drilling for a geothermal heating and cooling system at a home in White Plains, N.Y., May 8, 2023. A community in Framingham, Mass., will soon become one of the ...

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 ...