Earth’s atmosphere

Earth’s stratosphere is shrinking due to carbon emissions 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- May 24, 2021
“It is shocking. This proves we are messing with the atmosphere up to 60 kilometres,” says researcher.

By David Aragorn
Earth’s early atmosphere may have been toxic like the one on Venus 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 26, 2020
Source: New Scientist When Earth was young, its surface was probably covered in a magma ocean, and the gases rising from that seething sea may have provided it with an atmosphere nearly identical to the toxic one present on Venus today. Earth’s early magma ocean was probably created by a collision with a Mars-sized object

By David Aragorn
Light-absorbing ‘tarballs’ detected in the Himalayan atmosphere 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- November 12, 2020
Air samples taken at a remote research station in the Himalayan mountains revealed pollutants are travelling from thousands of kilometres away and could increase glacial melting rates.

By David Aragorn
Ozone layer repairing, redirecting wind flows, new study says 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- March 27, 2020
The world has some good news to look forward to amid the novel coronavirus outbreak: a hole in the ozone layer is in recovery.

By David Aragorn
Monster low tests the limit of the atmosphere this weekend 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- February 15, 2020
To pull off this atmospheric feat to create this perfect storm, the upper-level support with the jet stream is off-the-charts ideal

By David Aragorn
Earth’s Atmosphere Had Terrifying Mercury Pollution Even Before The Killer Asteroid 0
- Ancient Archeology, Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- December 20, 2019
Source: Science Alert Even before the Chicxulub asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago, dinosaurs and other life forms were dealing with toxic mercury levels, a new study suggests. The fresh evidence serves up even more contention in a “long-running and bitter” debate over how the dinosaurs died all those years ago. While some scientists

By David Aragorn
Earth’s atmosphere stretches out to the moon – and beyond 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 21, 2019
The gaseous layer that wraps around Earth reaches up to 630,000 kilometers away, or 50 times the diameter of our planet, according to a new study based on observations by the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, SOHO, and published in AGU’s Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics.

By David Aragorn
China and Russia modify Earth’s atmosphere 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- December 18, 2018
The two world powers have reportedly been working together on a series of controversial experiments.

By David Aragorn
The Edge of Space Just Crept 12 Miles Closer to Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 25, 2018
Did you feel that? Does it suddenly feel a little bit stuffier in here to you? Does it feel like, I don’t know… outer space just got 12 miles (20 kilometers) closer?

By David Aragorn
Finding the pulse of the polar vortex 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- July 11, 2018
Changes in the strength of the stratosphere’s polar vortex pulse downward, affecting weather all the way to the surface.

By David Aragorn