Earth’s surface is warming, but the upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades, and scientists now understand why.

The world is warming. This fact is most often discussed for Earth's surface, where we live. But the climate is also changing from the top of the atmosphere to the bottom of the ocean. And there is a ...

A new study involving the University of Liverpool reveals striking temperature shifts across both the oceans and the atmosphere, using an extended version of the now-iconic climate stripes ...

Scientists have finally cracked the mystery behind one of climate change’s strangest fingerprints: while Earth’s surface ...

A new study explains why carbon dioxide is cooling the upper atmosphere, even as it is warming Earth’s surface.

To understand what Americans are experiencing with this winter blast, we need to look more than 20 miles above the surface of Earth, to the stratospheric polar vortex. When you purchase through links ...

The air high above Earth has been moving in the opposite direction of the world below it. While the planet’s surface and ...

Penguin poop may be playing a key role in keeping climate change in check over Antarctica, new research published May 22 finds. Specifically, ammonia released from penguin poop (aka guano) may help to ...

The world’s first artificial satellite, the Soviet Union’s Sputnik 1, was launched in October 1957. Just three months later, it fell out of orbit. As Sputnik hit the upper atmosphere at incredible ...