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Environment

Why El Niño’s impacts on the UK are hard to predict

A planet-warming El Niño climate phase has begun, but while the phenomenon can influence Europe's weather through long-distance atmospheric teleconnections, the effects are often uncertain

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‘Forgotten’ pollutants cause 15 per cent of global warming

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El Niño has started and the weather could get weird

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Route-planning AI cut climate-warming contrails on over 100 flights

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Environment

Did a cloud-seeding start-up really increase snowfall in part of Utah?

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Aurora Borealis dancing over Tromso Urban Skyline. Tromso Panorama and winter night landscape with Northern Lights (Aurora Polaris) on a cold night, with starry sky, polar lights and snowcapped mountains on Kvaloya Island in the background. Cityscape with Brightly Street Light of the Arctic Capital, Northern Norway

Earth

The audacious quest to light up the sky with artificial auroras

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Technology

Tiny discs can levitate in the upper atmosphere using sunlight alone

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High resolution star trail from the SpaceX Crew 9 Dragon, marked by a fleet of flashing Starlink satellites, glowing atmosphere, soon to rise sun, and arcing stars. Captured over the Pacific Ocean with Nikon Z9, Sigma 14mm f1.4 lens, effective 24 minute exposure compiled from individual 30 second frames, f1.4, ISO 1600.

Space

A stunning, star-studded view of Earth

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Space

Astronomers found a completely new type of plasma wave near Jupiter

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Environment

Could reusable rockets make solar geoengineering less risky?

Injecting aerosols into the atmosphere – but at higher altitudes than planes can reach – could cool the climate while avoiding some of the downsides of lower-altitude solar geoengineering

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Space

We've spotted auroras on Neptune for the first time

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Space

Astronomers uncover the topsy-turvy atmosphere of a distant planet

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Environment

Monster wildfires are sending more smoke into the stratosphere

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Environment

The jet stream may be starting to shift in response to climate change

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