Researchers found that atmospheric mercury levels have decreased by almost 70% in the last 20 years, mainly because ...

Over the last decade, humanity's emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂) have stabilized after a period of huge growth. Average ...

Across the globe, monsoon rainfall switches on in spring and off in autumn. Until now, this seasonal pattern was primarily understood as an immediate response to changes in solar radiation. A new ...

Hundreds of millions of years before oxygen surged in the atmosphere 2.4 billion years ago, swaths of oxygen winked in and out of existence in the ocean.

In a significant development for law students at Anchor University, the Public and Private Development Centre, PPDC has established the university’s first law clinic, which aims to equip ...

With a cap in place, those ingredients are choked off at the middle layers of the atmosphere and would limit severe weather. Though if the cap eroded, there is a larger risk for severe storms with ...

As this type of low-pressure system traps extremely cold air below 30 C coming in from the Arctic, it destabilizes the atmosphere, making temperatures between the upper and lower layers of the ...

Over time, they noticed that the atmosphere had distinct layers. By the early 1900s, scientists had identified major layers of the atmosphere based on how the temperature changed at different ...