An international research team led by Aalto University has just published the first large-scale analysis based on long-term ...

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 ...

The continent is the fastest warming, partly as a consequence of its proximity to the Arctic where melting ice exposes the ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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.