Jet streams are often referred to as the "motor" of global weather: High-altitude wind currents steer areas of high and low ...

Human activities, such as burning fossil fuels, are warming Earth’s climate. The climate crisis has widespread ramifications. Ecologists are worried that many species will become extinct ...

By Doug Struck, The Daily Climate The story was tucked on the bottom of page A4 in last week's New York Times.Most readers probably passed on it. Another piece about how fast the ice is melting.

By raising the altitude of certain flights by just 2,000 feet, scientists say we could reduce climate-affective airplane exhaust by almost 60 percent.

Airplane cabin temperatures can dictate safety as well as comfort. Advocates say they need to be standardized.

Increasing or decreasing the altitude of aircraft by a few thousand feet to avoid thin layers of humidity could make a major reduction to contrails’ contribution to climate change.

IN THE SKIES OVER MONTANA – Well, that was a first for me: I’d never had to sign a waiver to catch a flight before. I recently joined a mission on NASA’s DC-8 flying laboratory out of the ...

As geographers rather than high-altitude mountaineers, our aim was to retrace some of the reconnaissance routes used by the British in the 1920s—a time when Nepal was closed to foreign visitors.

A Himalayan village in Nepal has vanished — emptied by climate change. Samjung, perched in the high-altitude Upper Mustang ...

Among climate scientists, though, Lonnie G. Thomson’s exploits are the stuff of legend. He is, colleagues say with just a hint of envy, a swashbuckler in the careful and cautious world of ...