Wider trends emerge when you look at the planet on a global scale. "There are some spots on Earth that are always cloudy, like over the Amazon rainforest, and there's other spots like the Sahara ...

A major new study led by NASA has revealed something alarming: Earth’s cloud cover is shrinking, and this is making the ...

Cloudy Earth. By Phil Plait. May 09, 2015 7:30 AM. Tweet Share Share Comment ... Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that global warming is real, and humans are responsible.

In short, the global warming induced by increased greenhouse gases changes the major wind systems on Earth. This in turn reduces the area of highly reflective clouds, leading to additional warming.

By using a new approach to analyzing data from satellites, scientists in a new study suggest that Earth's clouds could exacerbate global warming over time. This work, conducted by researchers at ...

Climate change is governed by changes to the global energy balance. A synthesis of the latest observations suggests that more longwave radiation is received at the Earth's surface than previously ...

Light pollution conceals the Milky Way’s star-spangled core from more than a third of Earth’s population, a global atlas of artificial sky luminance reveals.

Earth shattered global heat record in 2023, European climate agency says. New York City was visible in a haze-filled sky due to wildfires in Canada on June 7, 2023, in New York. Yuki Iwamura ...