According to a new study in JGR Atmopsheres, climate change will likely intensify Saharan dust storms in the Mediterranean, causing poor air quality and increased glacier melt in Europe

Greenhouse gases may get more attention, but aerosols — from car exhaust to volcanic eruptions — also have a major impact on the Earth’s climate

A 1% reduction in earth's magnetic field can add 10 times more CO2 to the atmosphere than volcanism.

If the US and Russia waged an all-out nuclear war, 15 million tons of black soot would be released into the atmosphere, temperatures would drop by more than 15°F and famine would threaten almost all of the world's population.

Scientists discover a mass anomaly beneath the largest crater in the South Pole-Aitken basin, on the far side of the moon, that could be due to metal from asteroid impact…

Radioactive carbon released into the atmosphere from 20th-century nuclear bomb tests has reached the deepest parts of the ocean, and has been found in muscle tissues of crustaceans that inhabit Earth's ocean trenches…

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Nasa finds water on the moon

Total human carbon dioxide emissions could match those of Earth's last major greenhouse warming event 56 million years ago in fewer than five generations, or 140 years, new study found.

The gaseous layer that wraps around Earth reaches up to 630,000 kilometers away, or 50 times the diameter of our planet, according to a new study based on observations by the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory…