Although a clear sky makes for an easy forecast, you must still keep in mind how high the UV index will be Tuesday. The UV ...

Decades after underground coal mining all but ended in Eastern Pennsylvania, residents of certain areas continue today to face a hidden danger: mine subsidence. Gaping holes sometimes open without … ...

Earth’s atmosphere now has more carbon dioxide in it than it has in millions — and possibly tens of millions — of years, according to data released Thursday by the National Oceanic and ...

Capping Inversions & Subsidence. Story by Brett Scott ... but it is very important when considering its interactions with storms and how temperature behaves in the vertical atmosphere.

New reports out of the NOAA and Scripps Institution of Oceanography suggest that the carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in Earth’s atmosphere haven’t been this high in millions of years.

Last year, the atmosphere's concentration of CO₂ rose at the fastest rate on record. Over the last decade, atmospheric CO₂ increased an average of 2.4 parts per million (ppm) a year.

The exact origins of the moon's extremely thin atmosphere—known as an exosphere—have remained a mystery to scientists for decades, but according to a new paper in the journal Science Advances ...

The rate of subsidence is far from uniform, though: Some places along the Gulf Coast, like Galveston County in Texas and New Orleans in Louisiana, are rapidly sinking while others are staying put.

NASA's Galileo spacecraft took this image of Earth's Moon on Dec. 7, 1992, on its way to explore the Jupiter system in 1995-97. Credit: NASA ...

In the lower atmosphere there may be three, or even fewer, cells compared to Earth's six, and higher up there is a single, global, Hadley cell in which gas flows directly from one pole to the other.