When it comes to deciding the fate of the planet, Dr. Colleen Golja always thought science and reason would have a seat at the table. That was until one morning last September in London, when the climate researcher took part in the first in a series of war games. The goal: to prevent an uncontrolled global race to develop a technology aimed at cooling the planet but that comes with vast, unknown risks that could reshape life on Earth.

Once top-secret CIA files have detailed America's plans to control the world by manipulating the weather.

The United Arab Emirates could turn to Artificial Intelligence (AI) to increase cloud seeding missions and rainfall levels across the country, it has been revealed.

Venture capitalists, startup founders and tech executives are funding studies, experiments and small deployments of controversial technology that could cool the planet.

Delhi's Environment Minister Gopal Rai held a meeting with IIT Kanpur scientists to discuss the possibility of artificial rainfall by using cloud seeding in order to curb air pollution in the city.

Global efforts to respond to climate change are so far insufficient, making it time to begin studying technologies to reflect sunlight away from the Earth to cool it down temporarily, said a new report from the United Nations published on Monday.

The White House is coordinating a five-year research plan to study ways of modifying the amount of sunlight that reaches the earth to temper the effects of global warming, a process sometimes called solar geoengineering or sunlight reflection.

A fleet of 125 military air-to-air refuelling tankers would release a cloud of microscopic sulphur dioxide particles at an altitude of 43,000ft (13km) and a latitude of 60 degrees in both hemispheres, slightly shading the Earth's surface beneath.

One of the great hopes is something called solar geoengineering, notes Clara Ferreira Marques, which is essentially an attempt to figure out a way to cool the planet by deflecting some of the sun’s rays before they reach us humans.