Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers reported Wednesday they detected microplastics in a majority of cloud samples taken from a mountaintop in China, in a ...

Brookhaven National Laboratory's new chamber allows researchers to study cloud formation in controlled conditions for the ...

Clouds form when water vapor—an invisible gas in the atmosphere—sticks to tiny floating particles, such as dust, and turns into liquid water droplets or ice crystals. In a newly published study, we ...

Graduate students analyze cloud formation data with research scientist Jesse Anderson, using the Pi Cloud Chamber to study atmospheric processes. × Michigan Tech's Pi Cloud Chamber is giving ...

Despite their tiny sizes, aerosols, such as sea salt, dust, and ash, play a giant role in shaping weather and climate. These particles scatter light, act as the starting point for cloud formation, and ...

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The National Center of Meteorology today announced at a press conference at UAE pavilion at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh the targeted research areas for the Fifth ...

An interesting phenomenon unfolded Monday in the sky over Houston as nearly perfect rows of clouds were spotted. Video submitted to us by a subscriber showed the unmistakable appearance of what are ...

Microplastics are turning up in unusual places increasingly often as they filter into nearly every facet of life on Earth. They’ve been discovered in drinking water, food, air and even in blood. Now, ...