meteorology

Arizona-based high-altitude balloon startup World View has a new partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to help the latter collect data to help it deepen its study

World View is a company focused on alternative methods of doing some of the work traditionally handled by satellites — but just a bit closer to Earth. Its “Stratollites” are balloons

An ESA mission 20 years in the making is set to take off today, launching the first satellite to monitor the planet's winds directly — and using a giant laser, at that. Aeolus takes off from French

Some people, when they look up at the sky and see a cloud, think "dog" or "fluffy." And some people think "it's a waning cumulus with a feathered edge suggesting a pressure system from the north endin

There's a lot about snow we don't know. Where does it come from? Where does it go? What does it taste like? Admittedly there are tentative answers to these questions. But there are yet more complex on

There are plenty of air quality sensors out there but so far the Awair Glow is the only sensor I’ve found that can do something about nastiness in your environment. The Glow is a small plugin ni

Understanding the complex order behind the apparent chaos of a tropical storm or hurricane is no easy task, but it's worthwhile to try — such storms deal death and destruction globally, and the bett