Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Low-level cumulus clouds appear to trace portions of Houston's freeway network in this satellite image from Tuesday morning.

Severe weather season in Texas has arrived and Central Texas is bracing for a couple of stormy days on the horizon this week. Knowing how thunderstorms develop and identifying cloud formations can ...

Clouds form when water vapor—an invisible gas in the atmosphere—sticks to tiny floating particles, such as dust, and turns into liquid water droplets or ice crystals. In a newly published study, we ...

Rising temperatures are thought to reduce the number of ice crystals in clouds, leading to the formation of liquid-dominated clouds. However, a new study has found that Arctic warming is causing an ...

A study led by the EPFL suggests that shipping emissions influence climate-relevant cloud formation and may affect regional climate processes far beyond the polar region. Over the last few decades, ...

As part of the international CLOUD project at the nuclear research center CERN, researchers at PSI have identified so-called sesquiterpenes—gaseous hydrocarbons that are released by plants—as being a ...