After a Falcon 9 rocket stage burned up in the atmosphere, vaporised lithium and other metals drifted over Europe. This growing type of pollution could destroy ozone and form climate-warming clouds ...

Brookhaven National Laboratory's new chamber allows researchers to study cloud formation in controlled conditions for the ...

According to Alex Turner, assistant professor in atmospheric and climate science at UW, the specific gases researchers focus on depends on the timescale they care about. Methane has a larger effect on ...

Researchers Present Blueprint for Joint Meteorology and Atmospheric Composition Program ...

Atmospheric methane rose faster than ever in the early 2020s, driven less by fossil fuels and more by changes in nature itself.

Harvard University researcher Michael McElroy made groundbreaking contributions to climate science and helped shape global ...

Life on Earth may have learned to breathe oxygen long before oxygen filled the skies. MIT researchers traced a key oxygen-processing enzyme back hundreds of millions of years before the Great ...

Atmospheric rivers are long, narrow corridors of concentrated water vapor in the atmosphere that transport vast amounts of moisture from the tropics toward mid-latitude and polar regions. These ...

UW-Milwaukee’s Atmospheric Science program is a part of the School of Freshwater Sciences. The degree program will close at the end of this school year due to low enrollment and faculty retirements, ...

What’s the first thing you do after waking up each morning, before you’ve even gotten out of bed? For many people, it’s checking the weather. For most, this is a thoughtless chore, an unexciting daily ...

NASA has awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to Science and Technology Corp., or STC, to support the agency’s atmospheric science research ...