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Atmospheric Science

Updates every hour. Last Updated: 9-Nov-2025 10:11 ET (9-Nov-2025 15:11 GMT/UTC)

Increasing heat is super-charging Arctic climate and weather extremes

North Carolina State University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

By evaluating historical climate records, observational and projection data, an international team of researchers found a “pushing and triggering” mechanism that has driven the Arctic climate system to a new state, which will likely see consistently increased frequency and intensity of extreme events across all system components – the atmosphere, ocean and cryosphere – this century.

Journal: Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
Funder: NASA Earth Science Technology Office, NOAA Weather Program Office, DOE/US Department of Energy

Fire in the sky: Strong summer storms in the Midwest send wildfire smoke into the previously pristine stratosphere

Purdue University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Dan Cziczo, a storm expert at Purdue University, found that strong summer storms in the Midwest are punching wildfire smoke up into the stratosphere — a previously pristine part of the atmosphere.

Journal: Nature Geoscience
Funder: NASA Earth Science Technology Office

Engineers developing new protective coating for spacecraft

University of Texas at Dallas
Grant and Award Announcement

University of Texas at Dallas researchers are developing a material to protect spacecraft in low Earth orbit (LEO) from harsh environments that can damage vehicles in space, such as satellites, shortening their lifespans.

The research project is supported by a two-year, $1 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

Funder: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Important phenomenon discovered in the Arctic – could boost marine life

University of Copenhagen
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have discovered an important phenomenon beneath the Arctic sea ice that was previously thought impossible. This phenomenon could have implications for the food chain and the carbon budget in the cold north.

Journal: Communications Earth & Environment

Ship emissions found to warm the planet more than expected

Biochar Editorial Office, Shenyang Agricultural University

A new study led by researchers at Tianjin University reveals that particles from shipping exhausts are contributing more to global warming than previously thought. The study identifies “brown carbon,” a light‑absorbing component of ship emissions, as a hidden driver of heat retention in the atmosphere.

Journal: Carbon Research

McGill research flags Montreal snow dump, inactive landfills as major methane polluters

McGill University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Montreal’s methane emissions are unevenly distributed across the island, with the highest concentrations in the city’s east end, McGill researchers have found. The worst polluters include the city’s largest snow dump, which emits methane at levels comparable to the city's current and former landfills, and natural gas leaks.

Journal: Environmental Research Communications
Funder: Environment and Climate Change Canada, Natural Resources Canada

Hurricane outages: Analysis details the where, and who, of increased future power cuts

University of Michigan
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Georgia and northern Florida are likely to be hardest hit by increasing hurricane-induced power outages along the Atlantic coast in the future, with Hispanic, non-white, low-income and elderly populations most affected, according to new research led by the University of Michigan.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

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