It Looks Like the Polar Vortex Is About to Do Something ‘Unprecedented’
For the past several months, an El Niño of “super,” “mega,” and “monster” proportions has been making headlines.…
Contrasting aerosol–cloud feedbacks across a warming Arctic
Pithan, F. & Mauritsen, T. Arctic amplification dominated by temperature feedbacks in contemporary climate models. Nat. Geosci. 7,…
Scientists Thought Venus Was Too Acidic for Complex Chemistry. It May Actually Be Weirdly Hospitable
Acid clouds: This is not just a genre of house music someone ten years older than you, or…
Something Deep Inside Earth Keeps Messing With the Length of Our Days
For practical purposes, we say that one day—the time it takes for Earth to rotate once on its…
Increase in global warming potential of atmospheric black carbon since 1750
Jacobson, M. Z. Strong radiative heating due to the mixing state of black carbon in atmospheric aerosols. Nature…
Antarctica Gained a Record 695 Billion Tons of Ice in Just Two Years
A rare surge in Antarctic snowfall temporarily added hundreds of billions of tons of ice to East Antarctica,…
Scientists Find the Hidden “Fuel” That May Intensify Tropical Clouds
A new study suggests that tropical convective clouds can reach much higher water-vapor supersaturation than previously documented, revealing…
The Ozone Hole’s Earliest Cause Wasn’t CFCs After All
When researchers first discovered the Antarctic ozone hole in 1985, it was a shock to the scientific community.…
Hidden Solar Storms May Be Lighting Japan’s Skies With Massive Red Auroras
Low-latitude aurora observed on June 28, 2024, in Yoichi, Hokkaido, Japan. Credit: Tomohiro M. Nakayama Unusually tall red…
Coal plants persist as a large barrier to the global solar energy transition
Three-step framework for PV generation and losses A three-step framework was developed to estimate facility-level PV energy generation…
Scientists Stunned As Volcano Removes Methane From the Air
The Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai volcanic eruption on January 15, 2022. Image taken from a video of the eruption.…
A New Way to Fight Climate Change Emerges From Erupting Volcano
When the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apa submarine volcano erupted in 2022, it spewed roughly 2.9 billion tons of ash…