Putting aerosols in the stratosphere to reflect sunlight could prevent the shutdown of key ocean currents, but only if it is ...

The researchers drew their conclusions by abandoning popular climate models that they said in recent years have not ...

Last year, the average global temperature rose by 1.5° C above pre-industrial levels, jeopardizing the goals of the Paris ...

The posts claiming there is no natural explanation for the deadly floods ignore a long history of deadly flooding in the Texas Hill Country region. It is sometimes called "Flash Flood Alley" because ...

Aerosol time-of-flight mass spectrometry (ATOFMS) is capable of measuring the sizes and chemical compositions of individual polydisperse aerosol particles in real time. A qualitative estimate of the ...

July Fourth is one of the worst days of the year for air quality in the region, said Daniel B. Curtis, associate professor of ...

NASA Ames research scientist Kristina Pistone monitors instrument data while onboard the Twin Otter aircraft, flying over Monterey Bay ...

Understanding how wildfires influence our planet's climate is a daunting challenge. Although fire occurs nearly everywhere on ...

Clouds play an important role in regulating the climate. Bright ones at low altitudes generally reflect solar energy away, ...

Though the space debris issue has been taken more seriously in recent years, scientists have discovered that destructive re-orbit, the standard method of debris disposal for modern Low Earth Orbit ...

Essentially, the sea-salt fine and ultrafine aerosol particles made the storms stronger, but the process ultimately cut off the source of warm, moist air, which crippled its growth.

Injecting aerosols into the atmosphere – but at higher altitudes than planes can reach – could cool the climate while ...