When you look at photographs of Earth from space, the planet looks like a blue marble, with patterns of clouds lying on the surface of the marble. It seems as if Earth's atmosphere is incredibly thin, ...

This story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. There is a paradox at the heart of our changing climate. While the blanket of air close to the ...

What you have read is correct. In fact, readings of 4,000 degrees exist in portions of the upper atmosphere, in the ionosphere — a layer extending from about 30 to 600 miles above the Earth’s surface.

Solomon Gebrechorkos receives funding from the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO; grant no. 201880) and the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC; grant no. NE/S017380/1).

Depending on whom you ask, the climate agreement that just came out of the COP28 conference is either an upset—having been agreed on in the United Arab Emirates, a petrostate—or a disappointment, or ...

Daily life increasingly depends on systems of satellites orbiting Earth. As fleets proliferate, ever greater numbers of expired units will hurtle back toward the surface. Decommissioned satellites ...