Higher humidity and increased air turbulence need to be taken into account when designing and building new observatories, say researchers
Read article: Climate change threatens future astronomical observations
Expedition sought to preserve ice record for future scientific investigations
Read article: Ice-core mission in the Swiss Alps abandoned due to surprisingly hard glacier
Dramatic drops in air pollution offer scientists a rare opportunity to study its links with climate and weather. But as Kate Ravilious discovers, it's a complicated connection
Read article: Has the COVID-19 lockdown changed Earth’s climate?
Bid to mitigate global warming could stagnate weather systems
Read article: Solar geoengineering could cause unwanted changes in climate, new modelling suggests
Data from NASA’s ICESat and ICESat-2 missions reveal that ice sheet losses from Greenland and Antarctica have contributed 14 mm to sea level rise since 2003
Read article: NASA satellite missions track 16 years of Earth’s melting ice sheets
On Earth Day’s 50th anniversary, Petteri Taalas and Lars Peter Riishojgaard, of the World Meteorological Organization, talk to James Dacey about the WMO’s response to the global pand...
Read article: How COVID-19 is impacting global weather and climate observation
Cities and countries around the world aim to become net carbon neutral within the next few decades. Kate Ravilious asks what will life look like in such a world?
Read article: Life in a carbon-neutral world
Solar cooking has glowing potential from both physics and humanitarian perspectives
Read article: Cooking with the Sun
Improved observational tools and models allow scientists to point to human influences
Read article: Climate change contributing to increase in extreme weather events, says expert report
Italian artist explains why he has teamed up with the United Nations
Read article: Lorenzo Quinn explains his climate-inspired sculpture ‘Support’
