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The atmospheric energy cycle describes how solar heating, radiative cooling and surface fluxes generate and redistribute energy through the atmosphere. Solar radiation at low latitudes creates ...

Human activity is changing the way water flows between the Earth and atmosphere in complex ways and with likely long-lasting consequences that are hard to picture. Land use change is altering where ...

Against the backdrop of global warming, sea level rise and extreme weather, it’s reassuring to learn that not all climatic changes are solely due to human activities. There are still natural rhythms ...

In direct contradiction to the official forecast, a team of scientists is predicting that the Sunspot Cycle that started this fall could be one of the strongest since record-keeping began. In direct ...

Washington, D.C.– Much of our planet’s mineral wealth was deposited billions of years ago when Earth’s chemical cycles were different from today’s. Using geochemical clues from rocks nearly 3 billion ...

The schematic diagram of the atmospheric water cycle and its changes with ENSO events over the TP in summer. The black fonts represent the climatic mean value and interannual variability. The red ...

Dust from the dry Puna Plateau in northwestern Argentina was an important source of iron for the nutrient-deficient South Pacific in the last two glacial cycles—especially at the beginning of these ...

Human activity is changing the way water flows between the Earth and atmosphere in complex ways and with likely long-lasting consequences that are hard to picture. Researchers enlisted water ...

An artist generated image illustrating possible futures in policy and research due to human modifications of the atmospheric water cycle. Human activity is changing the way water flows between the ...