The quest to identify a new way to potentially counter one of the world's most widely discussed solar geoengineering ...

The prospective reconfiguration of NCAR arrives at a time when severe weather is becoming more frequent, disruptive, and expensive, with billion-dollar disasters now striking the U.S. roughly once ...

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 ...

Every breath a person takes draws from a gas mixture that has barely shifted in recorded history: roughly 78 percent nitrogen ...

For most of the space age, rocket launches were rare. Their environmental impact was also negligible. A plume here, a plume ...

Scientists say they have identified the main process that formed the moon's atmosphere and continues to sustain it today. The team reports that the lunar atmosphere is primarily a product of 'impact ...

Researchers have developed the Smaller Than Earth Habitability Model (STEHM) to assess which planets can maintain ...

A new study shows that atmospheric rivers may be responsible for up to 90% of Antarctica’s annual precipitation.

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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 ...