When a volcano erupts, it can spew ash high into the atmosphere—inserting aerosols right where clouds typically form. How ...

Researchers are trying to rebuild sea ice above the Arctic Circle so it can reflect the sun’s warming rays, slowing climate ...

Neal is a graduate of Boston University. A summit crew heading down Mount Washington in New Hampshire saw a rare weather phenomenon known as a "snow devil" on Wednesday. Researchers with the Mount ...

Goodman said construction workers try to clean areas near the site with vacuums, but they overlook other areas up to a half-mile away where particles have traveled. “I’ve seen this ‘snow ...

Already in the 1980s it was suggested that aggregates, so-called “marine snow particles”, could possibly be suitable sites for N 2 fixation, and this was recently confirmed. Still, it has been ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

Those of us living on land depend on it, too: Marine snow is thought to store vast amounts of carbon in the ocean rather than letting it heat Earth’s atmosphere. Once those particles of marine ...

Newly discovered microscopic mucus tails – trailing from particles of marine snow particles – slow these particles’ descent into the deep ocean, research finds. This doubles the particles ...

These dancing snow particles were, in fact, white streaks and specks resulting from charged particles impacting the cameras. Our planet benefits from a sturdy magnetic field, which typically ...