When smoke rises from wildfires in the western United States, it pummels clouds with tiny airborne particles. What happens next with these clouds has been largely unstudied. But during the 2018 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – We start the new week with either a mix of sun and clouds or sun and wildfire smoke. Depending on where you’re at, you will experience one or the other, potentially both. The ...

Scientists have begun to penetrate a mystery of climate change: the effects of smoke from forest and agricultural fires on the future warming of the Earth and how it influences the behavior of clouds.

Over the summer of 2018, the worst wildfire season the western United States had ever seen sent thick plumes of smoke high into the sky. Atmospheric scientist Cynthia Twohy and her colleagues spent ...

Early risers in Texas saw something a little bit unusual earlier this week. A rare display of “meteor smoke clouds” — technically called noctilucent clouds — was rippling overhead before sunrise on ...