(Andreas Felske/Unsplash) It's well known that where there's smoke there's fire, but did you know that where there's rain ...

The initiation of rain in clouds without ice remains one of the largest unsolved mysteries in atmospheric science. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) ...

Most of us think forests simply depend on rain to survive. It sounds logical. Rain falls, trees absorb water, and forests grow. But scientists now know that the relationship works both ways. Forests ...

Precipitation comes in all forms: rain, sleet, freezing rain, and snow. Some even count virga, which becomes a gas and evaporates before it reaches us as raindrops. Hail also exists but forms ...