You don't need to plan an exotic trip to find beauty and perspective. Just look up, says Gavin Pretor-Pinney, founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society. Pretor-Pinney calls for us all to stop for a ...

Gavin Pretor-Pinney achieved unexpected success with his previous book, The Cloudspotter's Guide, an appreciation of the different types of water vapour masses that fill our skies with such depressing ...

Mark Phillips is the CBS News senior foreign correspondent and has been based in the London Bureau since 1993. He has covered every major international story of the past 35 years, including conflicts ...

Gavin Pretor-Pinney: Clouds entrance kids, but for adults are often metaphors for gloom But he says they are one of the most diverse, evocative, poetic parts of nature. He says scientists puzzled by ...

Ten years ago, Gavin Pretor-Pinney decided to rebrand clouds, or what he likes to refer to as the “patron goddesses of idle fellows.” For too long, clouds had been co-opted by bleak expressions like ...

In 2005, Gavin Pretor-Pinney travelled from England to Australia just to see a cloud. The cloud in question was a volutus, but locals in North Queensland call it ...

Un-du-la-tus as-per-a-tus sounds like an entry in the Hogwarts’ charms, spells and potions book. “What would that induce?” ponders Gavin Pretor-Pinney, pictured right, founder of the Cloud ...

Gavin Pretor-Pinney floated with his cloud book but Tom Fort wonders if he’s in too deep with The Wavewatchers’ Companion A few years ago Gavin Pretor-Pinney had an extraordinary success with his ...