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

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Even though it’s a tiny change, the algae that grows on patches of ice in Antarctica alters the albedo — or the ice's reflectivity — enough to make the planet warm even faster. "When [the ...

about the recent warming by linking it with Earth’s dwindling reflectivity. “But we still aren’t able to say why the albedo has been changing so much,” he said. “Is it aerosols ...

Pale-colored surfaces, such as snow and ice, reflect more light. Albedo, appropriately, means “whiteness” in Latin, as Peter de Kruijff notes for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.