Rainfall is often treated as a gift of geography — a function of latitude, oceans, and atmospheric circulation. A growing ...

Geoengineering does little to defuse most of the risks that really matter for people – and it runs the risk of making some harms worse ...

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 ...

Scientists have developed a powerful new way to trace the journey of water across the planet by reading tiny atomic clues hidden inside it. Slightly heavier versions of hydrogen and oxygen, called ...

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 Niña events.