The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered that a hazy sky over frozen Pluto is helping to cool the dwarf planet's ...

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

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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 ...

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 ...

Just because we can find ozone in the atmosphere of other planets doesn't mean there's life. Ozone is a sign of life on Earth ...

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, United States ...