For nearly 50 years, scientists have suspected that microscopic marine plankton play a role in cloud formation over the ...

The cleanest chamber ever built is allowing researchers at CERN to track the microscopic processes governing cloud formation, finds Matthew Chalmers Clean climate The CLOUD experiment is sensitive to ...

New climate change research conducted at CERN offers rare, hopeful news about the planet’s resilience to global warming.

As part of the international CLOUD project at the nuclear research center CERN, researchers at PSI have identified so-called sesquiterpenes—gaseous hydrocarbons that are released by plants—as being a ...

Marine plankton release a gas that helps in forming aerosol particles that can seed clouds over cold ocean regions -far more effectively than ...

Washington, D.C., August 25, 2011 — The long-anticipated CERN study of the impact of cosmic rays on formation of clouds in the atmosphere, published today in Nature, should prompt a major revision of ...

Scientists at CERN have been throwing world-class technology and researchers at a simple question: what makes clouds form? A new paper from the so-called CLOUD group has unearthed two important ...