Earth's Atmosphere

Can it replace satellites?

Hurricanes and other tropical cyclones inject ice far into the stratosphere.

Satellite observations show atmosphere expands and contracts in unexpected short time periods.

Aerosols from eruption of Alaska volcano could be coloring sunsets.

Recovery of the ozone hole could warm atmosphere, disrupt wind patterns, climate.

Nuclear war on one side of globe would create planet-wide ozone hole, allow dangerous UV rays in.

The giant hole in Earth's ozone layer shrunk since last year.

Scientists validate a new weather-forecasting model.

Though made up of water and air, the various clouds hanging in the sky can spur the imagination with their many sizes and shapes.

NASA scientists investigate the effects of the eruption of a volcano in the Arctic circle on... India.

The Antarctic ozone hole is not showing any signs of recovery. Meanwhile, nature itself is destroying ozone over Earth’s North Pole.

Space weather in the upper reaches of the atmosphere is affected by weather conditions down here on Earth, a new study suggests.

The jet streams are on the move, and scientists say it could change rainfall long-term patterns around the globe.

The potentially hazardous stuff seems to be sucked down from the stratosphere by a strange phenomenon.

Data that suggested cooling in the troposphere is shown to be wrong. Indeed, the planet is warming.