Fed up with a lack of action on climate change, some students are researching dimming the sun despite the pushback from other scientists.

By Gloria Dickie

Yashas Raj and Jake Chapman are hunkered down in a basement laboratory at the University of Cambridge’s Department of Engineering—tinkering with a handheld nozzle they hope will one day be capable of shooting trillions of microscopic water droplets into the sky every second to brighten clouds over the Arctic Ocean. Boosting cloud reflectivity by adding the mist, they say, would cut the amount of sunlight reaching the water’s surface and slow the melting of Arctic sea ice.

A New Generation of Climate Scientists Warm Up to Solar Geoengineering

The tech giant is attempting to skirt Linn County’s environmental and economic zoning requirements by redrawing a nearby city’s boundaries.

By Anika Jane Beamer

Google is seeking to bypass data center zoning rules recently adopted by Linn County, Iowa, by annexing the land for its proposed campus into a city two miles away.

Google’s Response to An Iowa County’s New Data Center Requirements? Annex The Land.

The pledge is nonbinding and unlikely to bring immediate relief on electricity bills. Making it real will fall to utilities and regulators.

By Rambo Talabong, Charles Paullin

In an effort to quell blowback on data centers, President Donald Trump announced at a White House roundtable on Wednesday the “Ratepayer Protection Pledge,” a set of nonbinding promises that Big Tech companies signed to keep household utility bills from skyrocketing.

Big Tech Signs Trump Pledge to Pay Data-Center Power Costs. Fulfilling It Is the Hard Part.