atmosphere
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Scientists Suggest Dehydrating a Layer of Earth’s Atmosphere to Fight Global Warming
A new climate intervention strategy aims to decrease the amount of water vapor in the stratosphere by injecting it with ice-forming nuclei. The idea is that, by reducing the water content, more heat in the form of infrared radiation would leak out into space. Scientists described the strategy a study published Wednesday in Science Advances.…
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Volcano Eruption Shuts Down Crucial Climate Change Monitoring Site
The eruption Mauna Loa in Hawaii has temporarily disrupted one of the most important tools we have to keep track of CO2 emissions in the atmosphere.
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Tell Me How I’m Supposed to Breathe With No Air (On Mars)
The Martian atmosphere is thin, its volume is only 1% of the Earth’s atmosphere. That means there’s 99% less air on Mars than on Earth.
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Recurring Water Vapour Potentially Found on Europa, but Just on One Side
The icy surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa appears to be continually feeding its thin atmosphere with water vapour, according to Hubble observations made from 1999 to 2015.