The Earth is slowly losing its shine. Its reflectivity – or albedo – is declining, mostly due to vanishing ice cover and fewer clouds. So few, in fact, that 2023 stood out as the year with the lowest ...

New research reveals that shifts in plant life played a key role in speeding up major climate changes during the late Miocene ...

Researchers at the University of Utah recently published a first-of-its-kind study that measures the impact dust has on ...

Despite being overlooked down at the South Pole, Antarctica actually plays a large role in our world and you would notice if ...

Albedo is building low-orbit satellites to map and monitor the Earth with unprecedented precision. The company is raising a Series B funding round at a $285 million pre-money valuation. Albedo ...

Dust-on-snow is a major threat to water in the Colorado River, yet no snowmelt forecasts integrate dust-accelerated melt. Using pioneering remote sensing techniques, new research is the first to ...

It is relatively nearby to us, but that's not the main reason. Astronomers use the term albedo to describe how bright a planet is in absolute terms. Albedo is a comparison between how much ...

A new algorithm has been developed to simultaneously estimate multiple shortwave radiation components using data from China's ...

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They found that soot traveling through atmospheric corridors could have blackened Antarctic sea ice and boosted its melting, the team reported last month in Environmental Data Science. Chakraborty ...