A team led by the Alfred Wegener Institute puts forward a possible explanation for the rise in global mean temperature: our planet has become ... the lowest planetary albedo," says co-author ...

FARGO — Albedo is a word describing the portion of the sun’s radiation reflected from a surface. Most solar radiation passes directly through air with relatively little absorption. The reason ...

The scientists scoured NASA satellite data, weather data and climate models and found the decline in low clouds reduced the planet’s albedo to record lows last year. Areas including parts of the ...