Athmospheric

An El Niño event of historic proportions is taking shape in the tropical Pacific, bringing unusually warm ocean conditions and...

Climate change is rapidly redrawing the map of livestock production, but a global analysis suggests that the most urgent challenge...

Wildfire smoke is usually treated as a problem that remains in the atmosphere: a drifting mixture of fine particles, gases...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — In northern Kenya, one of the world’s most severe recent droughts did more than kill livestock...

Forests cover roughly one-third of Earth’s land surface, shelter most of the planet’s terrestrial biodiversity, store vast quantities of carbon,...

A floating platform packed with native reeds and sedges has delivered a striking result in the fight to decarbonize wastewater...

A new deep-learning system could make it far easier to detect one of the ionosphere’s most disruptive—and elusive—phenomena: plasma bubbles....

Bread, pasta and breakfast cereals may appear far removed from the dry fields where wheat is grown, yet a new...

Earth’s inner core may be far more dynamic than its solid appearance suggests. New experiments from researchers at the Institute...

Offshore wind farms are widely presented as a cornerstone of Europe’s strategy to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, but a new high-resolution...