Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just under two weeks have passed since a record-setting blizzard dumped up to a foot and a half of snow across Northwest Missouri ...

The sun heats the Earth’s surface with solar radiation, and how quickly it heats everything up depends on the color of the surfaces being heated. Albedo is the term that describes the fraction of ...

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, it's the ...

NORFOLK, Va. — After Monday’s winter weather, areas around the Peninsulas and the western Southside accumulated three or more inches of snow. And that snow slightly affected high temperatures this ...

A new study by Hashem Akbari, a professor in the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, offers a ...

As the world’s highest plateau, the Tibetan Plateau receives intensified summer solar radiation due to its high altitude and low air density. This creates low-pressure systems and cyclonic circulation ...