Learn more about albedo – the simple measurement that has a vast impact on our planet and influences the climate ...

A study published in Geophysical Research Letters reveals that glaciers in western Canada, the United States, and Switzerland ...

The albedo effect is also not what causes airplane condensation trails to form as the post posits, according to Joshua Horton, the former research director for geoengineering at the Harvard ...

Menounos and his co-authors conclude that even though B.C.’s glaciers are melting faster, they may have reached their peak ...

However, a 2021 NASA study found that the excess of incoming sunlight over outgoing radiation, known as Earth’s energy ...

With that in mind, fresh snow has an average albedo of 0.7 to 0.9, whereas things like soil and vegetation have an albedo of 0.1 to 0.3. In other words, fresh snow can reflect away nearly 70 to 90 ...

New research from the Future Ecosystems for Africa program at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, has ...

Melting Ice and Albedo Effect. Ice and snow reflect sunlight, which helps keep the Earth cool. However, as temperatures rise, ice melts, revealing darker surfaces that absorb more heat.

The albedo effect is one reason why the poles are heating up so quickly — high-albedo snow and ice are being replaced by low-albedo (dark-colored) water and exposed tundra.