Luke Iseman and Andrew Song have a plan to cool the planet, inspired by a science fiction novel, using balloons full of heat-reflecting sulfur dioxide launched into the Earth's stratosphere. But some ...

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) issued a lahar advisory for communities near the Mayon, ...

Human-caused global warming has just nudged past 1.5°C, according to a new method we have developed . That's approaching ...

The record-breaking eruption occurred on January 15, 2022. The eruption’s 36-mile-high (58-kilometer-high) volcanic plume was the largest ever recorded, and reached Earth’s mesosphere in just half an ...

The risks of solar geoengineering will be magnified if critics are ignored and researchers are allowed to self-regulate.

We are at a critical time and supporting climate journalism is more important than ever. Science News and our parent organization, the Society for Science, need your help to strengthen ...

The eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai (HTHH) in January 2022 ejected about 2.9 billion tons of volcanic material into the ...

Caption Thomas Marler (left) and Gil Cruz (center) measure cycad plant size traits in the foothills of Mount Pinatubo, Philippines, along with Ulysses Ferreras (right) from the Philippine Native ...

A new study investigated other compounds that are less toxic and better performing than SO 2, and found that diamond dust is actually the planet’s best bet. However, deploying such a plan is estimated ...