While atmospheric rivers are an incredibly important source of rainfall ... Western Europe and North Africa also experience frequent atmospheric rivers, as do New Zealand and Australia.

Ancient carbon once presumed safely entombed beneath Earth’s surface is now bubbling back into the atmosphere through the ...

but also escape into the atmosphere from seawater. Researchers present data on the composition and sources of different types of plastic in the air over the North Atlantic and the origin of the ...

The strongest atmospheric rivers can move anywhere between seven and 25 times as much water as the flow of the Mississippi River, which is the second longest river in North America and has a ...

The source of the upcoming wet week is an atmospheric river storm originating from the Pacific in an area north of Hawaii. Atmospheric river storms are the biggest “rivers” on Earth.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Fall is here and so, too, is the potential for the West Coast to see atmospheric rivers return to the forecast. The Pacific Northwest will miss out on the opportunity to ...

In fact, he says, these seem to date back to the 1940s during World War II when meteorologists were advising Allied forces in the North Atlantic Theater. Atmospheric river, he says, is similar.

And a separate U.N. report ... to become larger sources of greenhouse gases," WMO deputy chief Ko Barret warned. "Wildfires could release more carbon emissions into the atmosphere, whilst the ...

The ice held part of the answer to a question that had vexed scientists for years: How much of the methane in the atmosphere, one of the most potent sources of global warming, comes from the oil ...

Here, Johns Hopkins environmental engineer Scot Miller discusses the implications of a new study on the source of climate-changing methane. Methane is the second-most important long-lived greenhouse ...