With common adversaries, the climate and nuclear disarmament movements have an unexplored potential to work together.

Thirty-five years after the start of the nuclear age with the first explosion of an atomic bomb, I visited the expanse of ...

A new adaptive optics system reveals stunning, ultra-sharp views of the Sun’s corona—offering an unprecedented look at solar ...

Researchers propose stratospheric aerosol injection to cool the planet, but face challenges and controversies in climate ...

Scientists are using new techniques to identify previously undetected layers of cloud in the atmosphere, layers which will ...

There are 10 main types of clouds. There's the Cumulus cloud, otherwise know as the Simpsons' cloud. "The cartoon cloud that forms on a sunny day. The fair weather cloud. It's like the generic one, ...

Fluorescence lidar technology enables a better determination of the origin of particles in the atmosphere. The method can ...

An atmospheric scientist explains how hail forms and what to do if you’re suddenly being pelted by giant ice chunks falling from the sky.

A growing global desire to venture into deep space could pose a new threat to life back on Earth – 40 years after the alarm ...

One chlorine atom can destroy over 100,000 ozone molecules before it is removed from the stratosphere, destroying ozone more ...

All weather that we experience is confined to this layer. Just above the Troposphere contains the stratosphere, which is the layer that commercial jets fly in. The Stratosphere can also be ...

The researchers had repeatedly observed very thin layers of smoke at high altitudes, which originated from forest fires in Canada but could not be seen using conventional methods. This suggests that ...