Skegness is SO bracing said the posters featuring the Jolly Fisherman.  But what is it that makes the seaside air so invigorating?  Not ozone, as your auntie or granny might have told…

“Do you believe in global warming?” he shouted after me as I was leaving the plane. On the plane  going back from ESA's Living Planet Symposium  in Bergen I sat beside a very lively and…

This is such a breathtaking view of the sky above Cotopaxi Volcano in Ecuador. Time lapse video takes you from day to night- full of shooting stars, and even some hikers' flashlights near the end.…

If we can't get rid of CO2, the greenhouse gas that gets the most press, perhaps we can store it, say researchers.    Maybe even in rock form.     Carbon dioxide when mixed…

A tornado is a rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground.  Tornadoes are capable of 250 MPH wind speeds, cutting a swath of destruction in excess of one mile width and…

The Sun is the biggest external source of energy which affects Earth’s climate. Long-term variations of the Earth’s orbit lead to long-term (~20-400,000 year) variations in the total energy received…

Desperately Denying Arctic Warming This is the age of rapid public access to satellite images.  If you want to know what is happening to the Arctic ice you can see for yourself. There are some…

Researchers writing in Science have found the possible source of a huge carbon dioxide 'burp' that happened some 18,000 years ago and which helped to end the last ice age. The results provide the…

Two weeks ago, I interviewed Dr. Roy Spencer from the University of Alabama, Huntsville. Spencer is a trained atmospheric scientist and actively publishes in peer-reviewed journals –  he is also…

Scientists from the University of Alabama, Huntsille have developed a new way to use satellite instruments to measure surface temperatures over most of the world's land area.  The new technique…