Earth's stratosphere - an atmospheric layer that starts 7.5 miles above the surface - is shrinking. The stratosphere has gotten a quarter-mile thinner since 1980 and will keep contracting. That ...

A group of government scientists are suggesting a strategy to literally dehydrate the stratosphere to help cool the planet — while admitting that it’d only do so much. In a press release, the National ...

We have airplanes and drones in our airspace and satellites in space, but what about the space in between: the stratosphere? There are platforms, such as blimps, balloons and high-altitude long ...

Daniel Bowman sends cell phones into the stratosphere aboard solar-powered hot-air balloons. You might be surprised what sounds they record up there. These balloons listen to the Earth from a dozen ...

Ozone from the stratosphere - 10 miles above ground, plunged to the surface producing air quality alerts across southern Colorado on Monday. This is rare. And, it came on top of the intense and ...

Smoke from the devastating bushfires in Australia has traveled so high it has reached the stratosphere—the second major layer of Earth's atmosphere. It has also completed a full circuit around the ...

It may sound like the plot of an old James Bond movie, but an idea to "dehydrate the stratosphere" to slow climate change is real. In a study released Wednesday in Science Advances, researchers ...

Spacecraft burning up in the atmosphere are leaving behind metal particles. Scientists are racing to understand if that affects the climate. One risk is that these particles may spark rainbow-colored ...