John Tyndall.
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The man who explained the greenhouse effect was accidentally killed by his wife.
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Carbon emissions are chilling the atmosphere 90km above Antarctica, at the edge of space
They may look comfy to sit on but you’d plummet through and hit the ground.
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You might have already felt what it would be like inside a cloud made of condensed water vapor.
Unlike Earth’s atmosphere, Jupiter’s ‘sky’ hosts magnificent shades of orange, white, brown and blue.
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Atmospheres can be all different colours, depending on what’s in them.
A lithograph from Gaston Tissandier’s balloon travels depicts falling stars.
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Not so long ago, people had no idea what would happen to them – and what they would see – once they ascended into the clouds.
Warming in the Arctic is more intense than it is in the rest of the world.
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More than 600 experts will spend the next year drifting in Arctic waters to gain a better understanding of how climate change is affecting the region and how it can be fought.
The Orbiting Carbon Observatory satellite makes precise measurements of Earth’s carbon dioxide levels from space.
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Carbon dioxide makes up less than one-twentieth of 1% of Earth’s atmosphere. How does this relatively scarce gas control Earth’s thermostat?
Fire consumes an area near Jaci Parana, state of Rondonia, Brazil, Aug. 24, 2019.
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If the Amazon rainforest functions as our planet’s lungs, what do raging wildfires threaten? An atmospheric scientist explains why the fires, though devastating, won’t suffocate life on Earth.
The air up high is just really bad at ‘holding’ onto the radiation coming from the Sun, and the warmth passes straight through it on its journey toward the ground.
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It helps if you imagine the ground here on Earth as a big heater. It keeps us warm, and if you move away from the heater you feel cold.
Very beautiful, and useful too.
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An expert explains all the wonderful ways the atmosphere protects life on Earth.
Flying high.
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It’s hard to believe, but big storms and hurricanes are caused by tiny particles moving around in the atmosphere.
The ocean absorbs about 90 percent of the excess heat produced as climate change warms the earth.
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According to a new study, the oceans have absorbed more heat from climate change than previously thought. This could mean the Earth will warm even faster in the future than scientists have predicted.
Unleashing hell.
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Scientists studying the atmosphere found help in an unlikely place – the aerial bombing campaigns of World War Two.
The colorful cloud belts dominate Jupiter’s southern hemisphere in this image captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft.
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Jupiter’s bands are one of its most striking features – and can be seen from Earth – but they only go so deep within the giant planet. Now scientists think they know why.
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captures Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, passes in front of the planet and its rings.
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Titan is more than a billion kilometres from our Sun but occasionally it’s shadow can be seen here on Earth, with the right technology. That’s what scientists gathered in Western Australia to observe.
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Even a small cloud can weigh as much as four tonnes – but gravity, chemistry and temperature keep them floating in the sky.
The air doesn’t like to be under pressure just like us. The wind is the result of the air trying to escape from high pressure.
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Wind is just air moving from one place where there is high pressure to another place where there is low pressure.
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The science of red skies can also help us understand how stars form.
Lasers being shone from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile.
These lasers help remove the twinkles in the night sky and help astronomers see stars clearer on Earth than ever before.
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How exactly do the stars twinkle in the night sky? As it turns out, the answer is full of hot air… and cold air.
The rainfall from Harvey has now exceeded the amount from the previous record-bearer, Tropical Storm Amelia in 1978.
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An expert in extreme weather events explains why the rain – and thus flooding – associated with Hurricane Harvey has been ‘unprecedented.’