For many, the word “aerosol” might conjure thoughts of hairspray or spray paint. 

The contrast is staggering. On one side of a narrow track is cool, moist rainforest, stretching northwest for hundreds of kilometers through the almost intact Xingu indigenous reserve. 

olutions found in nature should be our first line of defence against the increasing number of climate change-related natural disasters, say experts from the University of Surrey.

Ecosystems have increasingly been subject to the stress of heavy drought under global warming.

Global airborne mission finds a belt of particle formation is brightening clouds.

In a future with higher temperatures and other climate changes, Alaska’s boreal forests could look significantly different than they do now.

NASA’s Precipitation Measurement Missions (PMM) have collected rain and snowfall from space for nearly 20 years, and for the first time in 2019, scientists can access PMM’s entire record as one data set.

The globe continued to simmer in exceptional warmth, as September 2019  tied with 2015 as the hottest September in NOAA’s 140-year temperature record.

The fabled use of canaries in coal mines as an early warning of carbon monoxide stemmed from the birds’ extreme sensitivity to toxic conditions compared to humans. 

NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed over Mexico and found two small areas of very strong thunderstorms near two different coastlines.