Understanding how wildfires influence our planet's climate is a daunting challenge. Although fire occurs nearly everywhere on ...

Clouds play an important role in regulating the climate. Bright ones at low altitudes generally reflect solar energy away, ...

The ammonia from Adélie penguin guano reacts with sulfur-containing gases in the atmosphere to aid in forming clouds, which scientists say may be significant to regulating the climate ...

Scientists have observed that ammonia in penguin guano is directly related to cloud formation in Antarctica. Gaseous ammonia reacts with gaseous sulfur compounds in the Antarctic atmosphere to ...

Michigan Tech's Pi Cloud Chamber is giving researchers unique insight into cloud formation and behavior, positioning the University at the forefront of atmospheric research and climate science. The ...

Scientists are closely studying whether climate change is altering cloud formation processes and creating new or rarely seen cloud types in Earth’s atmosphere. Warming temperatures changing air ...

Why it matters. Ice in clouds has important effects on weather and climate because most precipitation typically starts as ice particles. Many cloud tops in nontropical zones around the world extend ...

This suggests that microplastics in the air may affect weather and climate by producing clouds in conditions where they would not form otherwise. We are atmospheric chemists who study how different ...

Clouds also affect weather and climate in several ways. They reflect incoming sunlight away from Earth’s surface, which has a cooling effect, and absorb some radiation that is emitted from Earth ...

The formation of ice within clouds plays a critical role in weather as it often triggers precipitation. In colder air, clouds with high enough altitude experience freezing, where ice particles ...

Clouds affect Earth’s weather and climate in many ways. New research suggests that the presence of microplastic particles could alter these processes. Microplastics promote cloud formation, with ...