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Plant distribution and health is controlled by properties of the atmosphere such as climate, hurricanes, lightning, and pollution. Plants also play a large role in controlling the atmosphere. In fact, the atmosphere at any one location is not only the...

During most of history, the Earth's atmosphere was regarded as little more than a mass of air and clouds. Simple observations from the ground yielded little more than a basic understanding of the atmosphere 's characteristics. Manned balloon ascents in...

During most of history, Earth's atmosphere was regarded as little more than a mass of air and clouds. Simple observations from the ground yielded little more than a basic understanding of the atmosphere's characteristics. Manned balloon...

Throughout recorded history, people have realized that air is critical to life. Hundreds of years before the birth of Christ, Greek philosophers suggested that air was one of four basic elements, along with fire, water, and earth. For nearly 2000 years...

Earth's atmosphere is a layer of gases surrounding the planet Earth and retained by the Earth's gravity. It contains roughly (by molar content/volume) 78% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen, 0.93% argon, 0.038% carbon dioxide, trace amounts of other gases, and a...

Pilots of a Chilean commercial jetliner spotted flaming objects falling past their plane as it headed for a landing in New Zealand, airline officials said Wednesday.U.S. experts suggested the objects were likely meteors burning up in the earth's atmosphere and questioned Australian media reports they...

While most weather forecasters focus on the six or seven miles of earth's atmosphere where clouds drift and storms form, Jonathan Makela's sights are set much higher.Makela, a University of Illinois electrical- and computer-engineering professor, is working on a way to forecast the weather in...

The U.S. military is developing contingency plans to deal with the possibility that a large spy satellite expected to fall to Earth in late February or early March could hit North America.Air Force Gen. Gene Renuart, who heads of U.S. Northern Command, told The Associated...

A new commercial rocket reached space after launching from a Pacific atoll Tuesday but then probably re-entered the Earth's atmosphere after half an orbit because of a problem during the second-stage burn, an entrepreneur said.Nonetheless, Elon Musk, founder of Space Exploration Technologies, characterized the launch...