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These powerful ‘rivers in the sky’ provide a huge share of annual precipitation in many regions, including California. They can also melt sea ice, with global climate implications.
As a record-hot summer comes to a close, an atmospheric scientist explains how global warming drove long periods of extreme heat.
While space is mostly empty, it does have some matter and particles spread throughout it.
New techniques are helping forecasters spot potentially dangerous storms earlier than ever.
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.
Burnt-up satellites could dump hundreds of tonnes of aluminium in the stratosphere every year. An atmospheric chemist explains what that might mean
HCFCs were a temporary replacement for CFCs, the initial subject of the 1987 Montreal protocol.
Scientists don’t often have the time to get all their equipment set up to study incoming meteors from space. Instead, they can study capsules from space missions as ‘artificial meteors.’
Our new research predicts how Hunga Tonga’s vast underwater eruption in 2022 will change winters worldwide for years to come – as far away as Australia, North America and even Scandinavia.
When rocks from space fall towards Earth, they usually don’t do any damage – here’s why.
Studying Venus’ water loss can help scientists better understand how planets go from potentially habitable to incapable of supporting life.
A powerful storm system produced dozens of destructive tornadoes over three days that tore apart homes in Oklahoma, Nebraska and Iowa. A meteorologist explains the conditions that fueled them.
New research reveals our understanding of dust’s role in the environment is far from settled.
There are an infinite number of paths an ice crystal can take before you touch it.
An atmospheric scientist explains how El Niño works, this year’s oddities and why this phenomenon doesn’t last long.
There’s a rule of thumb that rainfall intensity increases by about 7% per degree Celsius as temperatures rise. But the increase is much higher in the mountains, scientists found.
The results are intriguing, but analysing the atmospheres of exoplanets is no easy task.
The James Webb Space Telescope has detected key carbon-bearing molecules on the potential ocean world K2-18b, including tantalising hints of a substance produced by tiny plankton on Earth.
The last time methane in the air rose so fast, Greenland warmed by 10°C within decades.
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