Rainfall is often treated as a gift of geography — a function of latitude, oceans, and atmospheric circulation. A growing ...
La Niña's transition to neutral conditions in the eastern Pacific may influence Atlantic hurricane activity and Texas weather ...
A new study published in the Journal of Climate reveals how surface warming in Antarctica, particularly over the Antarctic Peninsula, is significantly altering the stability of the lowest layers of ...
For the first time ever, scientists have observed in near real time a cloud of air pollution created as a SpaceX rocket burned up in Earth's atmosphere.
Scientists have long used isotopes in water molecules to study where atmospheric moisture comes ...
Scientists tracked lithium pollution from a SpaceX Falcon 9 reentry in real time, linking rocket debris to atmospheric changes using LIDAR measurements over Europe.
The study found that those aerosols could warm parts of the upper atmosphere by about 1.5 degrees Celsius within one or two ...
The Pacific Ocean is warming so quickly that scientists had to find a new method for detecting and predicting El Niño and La ...
A look at what we know and don't yet know about how climate change could affect the paths of these storms — and the all-important question of how often they'll make landfall.
Scientists can now follow the path of a single drop of water across the globe. Water is made of hydrogen and oxygen, and some of these atoms naturally ...
Last September, I traveled to this far north outpost as part of a research team from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.