A layer of charged particles, called the ionosphere, surrounds Earth, extending from about 50 to 400 miles above the surface of the planet. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for ...

Many human activities release polluting gases into the atmosphere ... The Earth has a layered structure made up of the crust, the mantle, the outer core and the inner core. These layers each ...

However, in recent years, weather forecasting centres around the world have realized that in order to improve ... The links between these two layers of the Earth's atmosphere that affect both ...

Although the troposphere is often thought of as the closest layer of the atmosphere to the Earth's surface ... of the atmosphere more clearly in order to better predict droughts.