Brookhaven National Laboratory's new chamber allows researchers to study cloud formation in controlled conditions for the first time.

Researchers in the US have just unveiled a new convection cloud chamber which they ...

Last September, I traveled to this far north outpost as part of a research team from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

We've seen lava bombs, ash clouds and rivers of lava and recently we've seen a new kind of volcanic phenomenon called pyrocumulonimbus "That is just a thunderstorm cloud that is enhanced or just a ...

Substantial fires can make their own weather – and do it in several ways. The most common weather phenomena wildfires can create include pyrocumulus clouds, fire tornadoes and smoke clouds that cause ...

Heat from the recent wildfires raging in northern Minnesota is so intense, that under the right circumstances, they can actually create storms in the atmosphere. It's not uncommon to see cumulus ...

There is no shortage of penguin poop in Antarctica. In fact, you can see it from space, if you know where to look. Researchers often use satellite observations to study Adélie penguin populations and ...