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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.

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...

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.

Arctic Pond Particles Shape Clouds, Climate Change

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...

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

20x Difference: Study Reveals True Source of Airborne Microplastics

Microplastics circulate globally through the atmosphere, but their sources may not be what scientists once thought. The air around us is quietly carrying an unexpected form of poll...

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...

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.

NASA Flew by the Moon, but Behind the Scenes, Its Science Is a Chaotic Mess

Without science, the stunning images of Earth from space are only pretty pictures.

Want an oxygen-rich atmosphere? Stuff oxygen’s friends in the mantle.

Getting carbon and sulfur into Earth’s interior may be part of oxygen’s story.

Another Study Links Warming to Cloud Forcing, Shortwave Radiation, Natural Atmospheric Circulation

Natural atmospheric circulation patterns (like the Western Tibetan Vortex, or WTV) drive total cloud cover (TCC) change, which, in turn modulate the the amount of downward solar ra...

Scientists discover the strange way CO2 cools part of Earth’s atmosphere

Scientists have finally cracked the mystery behind one of climate change’s strangest fingerprints: while Earth’s surface heats up, the upper atmosphere is rapidly cooling. Research...

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...

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...

This Tiny World in the Outer Solar System Should Be Airless, but It Has an Atmosphere

A tiny world in our Solar System has an atmosphere it shouldn’t—hinting something dramatic happened there recently. A group of Japanese astronomers, including both professionals an...

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 »

Carbon Dioxide Cools the Stratosphere. Scientists Have Figured Out Why

There is something genuinely strange about the upper atmosphere. While Earth’s surface bakes, the stratosphere has been getting colder, shedding roughly two degrees Celsius since t...

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 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...

Airborne microplastics could be making climate change worse

Tiny plastic particles drifting in Earth’s atmosphere could have a significant warming effect, a new study finds

Why weather prediction got brilliant – but not climate predictions

Great video by Peter Ridd

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.