Scientists from McGill University have discovered that changes in cloud cover slightly mitigate global warming. While greenhouse gases continue to drive temperature increases, a reduction ...

"This work offers observational truth about how clouds affect warming, which can be used to improve climate models and guide environmental policies," said Liu. To discover this surprising effect ...

Considering the globe as a whole, high clouds and cloud-free scenes result in warming of the Earth's atmosphere, as less energy escapes into space than arrives from the sun. For low clouds ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: From thin and wispy to big and puffy, clouds cover about 70% of the planet at any given moment. But what if, in the next minute, poof, they all ...

The research is part of the Cosmics Leaving Outdoor Droplets experiment, otherwise known as CLOUD. To study the effects of different compounds on aerosol formation, Kirkby adds trace gases to a ...