A UCLA study shows that the amount of atmospheric desert dust has increased globally by roughly 55% since the mid-1800s. The change has likely had a slight overall cooling effect that has masked up to ...

Solar radiation enters the Earth's atmosphere without any hindrance and should normally leave it as heat. Unfortunately, this is impeded by the thickening "greenhouse roof" consisting of carbon ...

Climate models that give a low warming from increases in greenhouse gases do not match satellite measurements. Future warming will likely be worse than thought unless society acts, according to a new ...

In collaboration with France's CNRS laboratories in Paris and Bordeaux, researchers at the University of Geneva have successfully simulated all stages of a runaway greenhouse effect for the first time ...

Greenhouses gases aren’t the boogeyman they’re sometimes made out to be. In fact, we desperately need some in Earth’s atmosphere to survive. Without any naturally occurring greenhouse gases, Earth ...

Learn how climate change occurs and why humans are causing it. CFR Education aims to build global affairs literacy by providing free, nonpartisan resources and programming to help high school and ...

A study shows that global atmospheric dust -- microscopic airborne particles from desert dust storms -- has a slight overall cooling effect on the planet that has hidden the full amount of warming ...