Changes in rainfall within global monsoon regions affect the livelihoods of billions. For years, climate models have ...

Researchers have detected measurable traces left in the upper atmosphere when a rocket stage burns up, finding about ten times more lithium atoms than normal at around 96 kilometres, roughly 20 hours ...

Space junk returning to the Earth is introducing metal pollution to the pristine upper atmosphere as it burns up on re-entry, ...

Scientists studied the chemical trails, cosmic junk signatures and this lithium plume to study the trajectory of ...

The study highlights how letting rocket debris burn up in the atmosphere is not a consequence-free approach to orbital cleanup.

Despite 2023 and 2024 ranking as the warmest years on record, extreme cold events still gripped parts of China, Europe, and North America. A new study published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science ...

A new study published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences has found that ocean warming in 2024 has led to new record high temperatures. The ocean is the hottest it has ever been recorded by humans, ...

A plume of upper-atmospheric lithium pollution observed in February 2025 has been attributed to the reentry of a specific ...

The recent study focuses on the amount of lithium left behind from a single rocket reentry. Previous studies have already shown that lithium, aluminum, copper, and lead left behind from the reentry of ...

John Muir once said, “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” This is especially true when we’re trying to fix the damage that we’re doing ...