Despite the warm weather this week, I am imagining that the snow will linger for a while longer. I figure it will take a lot of solar energy to melt the drifts more than 3 feet deep in my field. So, ...

At a field site just 15 minutes from Michigan Technological University's campus, Alden Adolph and her team of student researchers are studying the reflectivity of melting snow to better understand ...

Considering the globe as a whole, high clouds and cloud-free scenes result in warming of the Earth's atmosphere, as less energy escapes into space than arrives from the sun. For low clouds, it's the ...