Asperatus — the first "new" type of cloud in decades — is about to get the recognition it deserves in the latest edition of the International Cloud Atlas, the world's top reference book for clouds.

What’s in a name? Asperitas comes from the Latin word for roughness. In 2006, the Cloud Appreciation Society, a group of weather enthusiasts based in the UK, received the first images of the ...

The epic Cloud Atlas is unconventional, defying what we're used to seeing in a studio film. It's complex, weaving varied stories from multiple eras together and linking them with theme and intent. And ...

The dazzling cinematic folly that is “Cloud Atlas’’ springs from the same idealistic impulse that has driven movies like “The Tree of Life,’’ “2001: A Space Odyssey,’’ even D.W. Griffith’s 1916 ...

The world's cloud authority, having not classified a new cloud in three decades, arose Thursday to name about a dozen new types, including a rolling, slalom-like form known to blanket the Iowa sky.

Cloud Atlas is an ambitious, intriguing film but its sprawling narrative feels at once too busy for three hours and overly long. Cloud Atlas is a beautiful film. Unfortunately, it's also a very long ...

The futuristic sections of the novel and movie 'Cloud Atlas' have some interesting changes to the English language. (Warner Bros. Pictures) In the futuristic sections of the novel "Cloud Atlas," by ...

Cast and crew members discuss financing, their love for the project and the messages conveyed by the film at the Los Angeles premiere. By C. Molly Smith Writer-directors Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski ...

The fantasy epic grosses more than $10 million in its first international berths in Russia, Ukraine and Turkey. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief COLOGNE, Germany — Cloud Atlas might have fallen ...

There are way more types of clouds in the world than “big, white, and puffy,” despite what the drawings of nearly every five year old or, let’s face it, adult would suggest. Varying with altitude, ...