NASA’s DC-8 flying laboratory took to the skies on Monday to kick off a two-month investigation into the life cycles of smoke from fires in the United States.

After more than six weeks without rain, Indonesia will soon start cloud seeding in an effort to kickstart precipitation and end an El Niño-driven drought that has put 50,000 acres of crops at risk of harvest failure, Reuters reported.

A new paper offers fresh insight into the forces causing the world’s largest ice shelf to melt.

Researchers have developed a laser-based system that can be used for airborne measurement of important atmospheric gases with unprecedented accuracy and resolution.

Atmospheric methane is a powerful greenhouse gas that also contributes to ground-level ozone pollution.

Mother Earth worked up a major sweat last month. Scorching temperatures made June 2019 the hottest June on record for the globe.

Volcanic eruptions eject sulfur dioxide gas high into the atmosphere, forming sulfate aerosol chemically and block the incoming sunlight like a parasol. 

NASA’s Aqua satellite provided a visible image of Tropical Storm Danas moving through the East China Sea on July 19, 2019.

The unrelenting deforestation of the Amazon region could lead to a dramatic increase to the risk of destructive wildfire outbreaks, research has shown.

They look like smears of pink bubblegum on the rocks off British Columbia’s coast, indistinguishable from one another.