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Earth’s Upper Atmosphere Is Cooling Fast and Scientists Finally Know Why

Earth’s surface and lower atmosphere are getting hotter, but far above the planet, another dramatic change has been unfolding in the opposite direction. The upper atmosphere has be...

A New Study Explains How Carbon Dioxide Cools the Upper Atmosphere—and Warms Earth Below

Researchers have solved a long-standing atmospheric puzzle: how rising carbon dioxide cools the stratosphere even as it warms Earth’s surface and lower atmosphere.

Exploring Connections Between Environment and Society

Aynsley Kretschmar, a soon-to-be graduate of the M.A. in Climate and Society program, reflects on the skills she’s gained from her time at Columbia, as well as what she’s most exci...

Arctic Pond Particles Shape Clouds, Climate Change

NASA's AWE instrument completes mission to study Earth's effect on space weather

On May 21, ground controllers powered down NASA's AWE (Atmospheric Waves Experiment) instrument, bringing the data collection phase of the mission to a successful and scheduled end...

Why weather prediction got brilliant – but not climate predictions

Great video by Peter Ridd

The Climate Physics of Planet Earth

Building Earth is a new interactive map that explains how the Earth's climate has developed over millions of years through the lens of physics. The map strips the planet back to it...

You Asked: Lamont and Climate School Experts Tackle Reader Questions on Science and Sustainability

We invite readers to share their most pressing questions about climate, science and sustainability.

Top climate research center at risk of cuts sues Trump administration

Universities that run the National Center for Atmospheric Research want to keep it from being dismantled

Making Sense of a Chaotic Planet: How Understanding Weather and Climate Risks Depends on Supercomputers Like Ncar’s

My colleagues and I try to understand extreme weather and long-term climate risks by using virtual versions of Earth inside these machines. The post Making Sense of a Chaotic Plane...

Making Sense of a Chaotic Planet: How Understanding Weather and Climate Risks Depends on Supercomputers Like Ncar’s

My colleagues and I try to understand extreme weather and long-term climate risks by using virtual versions of Earth inside these machines. The post Making Sense of a Chaotic Plane...

Student research on coronal holes improves space weather forecasting

Fast solar winds originating from the sun can have direct impacts on Earth—disrupting systems like GPS, aviation, electrical grids, and satellite and radio communications. A new pa...

Climate Vocabulary Activities for Upper Elementary Science

Teaching climate science is hard enough when students are wrestling with abstract concepts like greenhouse gases, climate zones, and long-term weather patterns. Add unfamiliar voca...

A Complicated Future for a Methane-Cleansing Molecule

A new model shows how levels of the “atmosphere’s detergent” may rise and fall in response to climate change.

University of Chicago Secures Prestigious Laude Institute Moonshots Seed Grant

In the face of escalating climate challenges, accurate and localized weather forecasting has become a critical necessity, especially for millions of farmers in developing countries...

JWST maps the weather on a hot gas giant 700 light-years away

The differences seen here could be throwing off how we study planetary atmospheres.

Atmos Is a Weather App By Photographers, for Photographers

As photographers know, light is extremely important. And for outdoor photographers, nothing affects the quality of light quite like the weather. Photographer Matthew Raifman wanted...

Weather Activities for 3rd Grade: Climate and Hazards

Weather activities for 3rd grade cover some of the most naturally engaging science content in the elementary curriculum. Students already have opinions about the weather, and NGSS...

Faculty Spotlight: Decoding the Arctic Ocean’s Chemical Clues

Laramie Jensen’s interest in inorganic and analytical chemistry led her to the ocean. And then to the North Pole.

Study posits how carbon dioxide cools the upper atmosphere, and warms earth below

Researchers have supposedly solved a long-standing atmospheric puzzle: How rising carbon dioxide cools the stratosphere even as it warms Earth’s surface and lower atmosphere. The p...

Byond the Clouds: The Scientific Future of SAR and Optical Satellite Fusion

For decades, Earth Observation (EO) has been plagued by a persistent, frustrating enemy: clouds. At any given moment, roughly 67% of the…Continue reading on Medium »

A New Study on Coronal Holes Improves Space Weather Forecasting

New Mexico State University (NMSU) astronomy graduate student Khagendra Katuwal studied 70 coronal holes on the sun to better understand the connection between solar activity and s...

Climate Knowledge Linked to Student Stress

Climate Knowledge Linked to Student Stress Joshua.Bay Fri, 04/17/2026 - 03:00 AM A new study from Quinnipiac University finds that greater awareness of c...

Research Paper Warns That There’s a Massive Experiment at Work to Geoengineer the Earth’s Climate

"We need to be extremely cautious." The post Research Paper Warns That There’s a Massive Experiment at Work to Geoengineer the Earth’s Climate appeared first on Futurism.