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The conclusions of researchers at the University of Berne - Switzerland published in the journal Nature on May 15 show that the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is…
An international team of scientists, led by professor of oceanography and atmospheric science Robert Duce of Texas A&M University, concluded that a large amount of nitro…
According to a new study, about 100 million years ago, in the period of the dinosaurs, the warming of the air significantly reduced the amount of clouds, causing the tem…
Four centuries ago, a volcano in Peru sprayed huge columns of dust and smoke into the sky. That disaster may have opened a new phase in the history of world climate.
Brent Christner, LSU biotechnology professor, in collaboration with colleagues in Montana and France, recently found evidence of rain-producing bacteria that are widely…
The phenomenon of clouds is becoming more and more dense in the atmosphere is the clearest evidence of the effects of climate change.
Jim Russel, a professor at Hampton University, an atmospheric scientist and chiefly responsible for AIM satellite funded by NASA, was the first to study thin clouds of n…
At the UN Climate Conference taking place in Bali (Indonesia), Asian scientists introduced a kind of
Australian scientists say satellite measurements show that the hole in the Antarctic ozone layer is shrinking, with the smallest size in the last 10 years.
Two British scientists have come up with a solution to global warming: plug thousands of giant pipes into the ocean to speed up algae growth.
An American and French research team has developed a method that is able to determine the impact of volcanic eruptions in the past on the climate and chemistry of the hi…
When analyzing the molecular aerosol samples (aerosols) extracted from two US cities, the researchers counted at least 1,800 different species of bacteria in the air. To…
Customers with conscience may regret having harmed the environment due to excessive travel. But they don't know that watching TV also releases carbon into the atmosphere.
For years, climate experts say forest fires will make the greenhouse effect worse, because they increase carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. But one
The work of German scientists, published in the American journal Nature, shows that it is the source of sunlight that cleanses the Earth's polluted atmosphere.