According to new research, Earth might have reflected less solar radiation last year than in any other year since 1940, a ...

Considering the globe as a whole, high clouds and cloud-free scenes result in warming of the Earth's atmosphere, as less energy escapes into space than arrives from the sun. For low clouds, it's the ...

The data reveals the density of ice, snow, and rain in the cloud, as well as the speed with which these particles are falling to Earth ... around the whole globe, not just at a handful of ground ...

According to NASA, the hottest years on record are the ten most recent years, and 2023 was the warmest on record since people ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The sun’s warming rays met less resistance in 2023, as Earth experienced a record low in cloud cover.

By now it's common knowledge that 2023 was the hottest year on record, coming in at 1.48 C warmer than the pre-industrial average from 1850-1900. The monthly records began to break in the middle of ...

A decline in low-lying cloud cover means Earth is absorbing more solar radiation, which could explain 0.2°C of missing heat scientists have been struggling to account for ...

Low-level clouds, which form within 2 kilometres of the Earth's surface, reflect radiation, but don't trap as much heat. To assess how low cloud cover changed in 2023, the new study used data from ...

Rising sea levels, melting glaciers, heatwaves at sea – 2023 set a number of alarming new records. The global mean ...

New research indicates that the water on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko has a molecular signature closely matching that of ...