geoengineering

noun2

1. •
   The artificial manipulation of the environments of a planet, especially Earth, especially as a means of counteracting global warming.

   • A scientist gets into geoengineering, they're not a scientist anymore, they're a politician. Get hate mail, rocks through window, no one takes their real work seriously, all that. — 2020
2. •
   The subfield of engineering concerned with designing and constructing tunnels, mines, and other human-designed geologic structures within and on earth.