Climate change is a topic that's rife with misinformation and controversy. However, the research is fairly clear: our planet ...

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In a year of grim climate and environment news, we’ve compiled several hopeful signs about our planet’s future.

The lifetime of nitrous oxide is decreasing more quickly than expected, which is changing climate projections.

The Earth’s atmosphere is nothing but freely roaming molecules. Left alone, they would drift and collide, and eventually even out into a mixture that’s dynamic, yet stable and broadly unchanging. The ...

Ocean eddies are churning harder, driving coastal currents and temperature extremes by warming surface waters while cooling ...

The global climate has changed drastically over the course of the 58 years that separate these two photographs of planet Earth.

A collection of short dispatches from the field of climate microbiology conveys the contributions that single-celled life forms make to our climate system, and how we can work with them to address ...

Penguin poop may be playing a key role in keeping climate change in check over Antarctica, new research published May 22 finds. Specifically, ammonia released from penguin poop (aka guano) may help to ...

The oxygen in Earth's atmosphere is key to making ours the only planet known to harbor life, but this precious resource is in limited supply. Although it is the best-known component of the air we ...

To understand what Americans are experiencing with this winter blast, we need to look more than 20 miles above the surface of Earth, to the stratospheric polar vortex. When you purchase through links ...