Earth is taking in more energy than it releases back to space—a growing "energy imbalance" that is fueling global warming. A ...

Earth is warming faster than ever, and new research shows that changes in clouds may be the main reason for this increase in heat. Scientists have discovered that our planet is absorbing more energy ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The sun’s warming rays met less resistance in 2023, as Earth experienced a record low in cloud cover. Planetary albedo is how much sunlight is reflected into space by Earth’s ...

Clouds have typically posed a problem to scientists using satellites to observe the lowest part of the atmosphere, where humans live and breathe, because they block the satellite’s ability to capture ...

Chemical reactions in the Arctic atmosphere are accelerating warming and reshaping climate far beyond the polar region.

A new NASA-led study helps answer decades-old questions about the role of smoke and human-caused air pollution on clouds and rainfall. Looking specifically at deep convective clouds — tall clouds like ...

Earth is warming faster due to a growing energy imbalance. Learn how new research pinpoints cloud changes, not aerosols, as ...

University of Tartu Associate Professor in Climate Physics Velle Toll has been awarded a prestigious European Research ...

A conflict-driven reroute of international ships exposed how dramatically cleaner fuel reduces cloud formation.

New research co-authored by Duncan Watson-Parris of UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute finds that industrial pollution in Earth’s colder ...

In the Northern Hemisphere, cleaner air has reduced aerosols, allowing more sunlight to reach the surface. Meanwhile, natural ...