On September 5, 2020, California's Creek Fire grew so severe that it began producing its own weather system. The fire's extreme heat produced an explosive thunderhead that spewed lightning strikes and further fanned the roaring ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 30, 2025
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On 16 September, the world marks the international day for the preservation of the ozone layer—a day of action initiated by the United Nations. This year's theme is "from science to global action"—a reference to the fact ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 16, 2025
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Climate models are complex, just like the world they mirror. They simultaneously simulate the interacting, chaotic flow of Earth's atmosphere and oceans, and they run on the world's largest supercomputers.
Environment
Sep 3, 2025
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So-called "100-year weather events" now seem almost commonplace as floods, storms and fires continue to set new standards for largest, strongest and most destructive. But to categorize weather as a true 100-year event, there ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 25, 2025
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More trees will cool the climate and suppress fires, but mainly if planted in the tropics, according to a new UC Riverside study.
Earth Sciences
Aug 19, 2025
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Between 50 and 100 kilometers (30–60 miles) above the Earth's surface lies a largely unstudied stretch of the atmosphere, called the mesosphere. It's too high for airplanes and weather balloons, too low for satellites, ...
Space Exploration
Aug 13, 2025
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A new study shows that natural dust particles swirling in from faraway deserts can trigger freezing of clouds in Earth's Northern Hemisphere. This subtle mechanism influences how much sunlight clouds reflect and how they ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 31, 2025
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A new study conducted by geologists from the University of Florida and the University of Maryland reveals that, as land is exposed by melting glaciers, chemical reactions in the newly uncovered glacial sediments initially ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 10, 2025
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Intense, short-lived summer downpours are expected to become both more frequent and more intense across Alpine regions as the climate warms. In a new study, scientists from the University of Lausanne (UNIL) and the University ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 19, 2025
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A small, multi-institutional team of climate scientists has found evidence that human-caused impacts on the stratosphere began earlier than previously thought. In their study, published in the Proceedings of the National ...
