Even as temperatures rise on Earth's surface and in the lower atmosphere, the planet's upper atmosphere has cooled ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Day and night frontier Roberto Machado Noa / Getty Images An unexpected consequence of climate change known as upper atmospheric ...

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

Ozone may be weakening one of the Earth’s most important cooling mechanisms, making it a more significant greenhouse gas than previously thought, research has found. A new study has revealed that ...

The air high above Earth has been moving in the opposite direction of the world below it. While the planet’s surface and lower atmosphere keep warming, the stratosphere, the layer that begins about 11 ...

Rising CO₂ levels will make the upper atmosphere colder and thinner, altering how geomagnetic storms impact satellites. Future storms could cause sharper density spikes despite lower overall density, ...

Researchers have revealed how rising carbon dioxide cools the stratosphere, even as it warms the lower atmosphere and surface ...

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 ...

A recent study published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences has uncovered a detailed mechanism through which intense storms ...

Using observations from NASA’s ICON mission, scientists presented the first direct measurements of Earth’s long-theorized dynamo on the edge of space: a wind-driven electrical generator that spans the ...

An unexpected consequence of climate change known as upper atmospheric cooling has finally been confirmed by satellite sensors. While proving the accuracy of our previous climate models, the ...