Tiny particles of plastic in the atmosphere can affect Earth’s climate, according to Laura Revell at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and colleagues. New calculations of the heating and ...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has renewed a groundbreaking University of California San Diego atmospheric chemistry research program with a $20 million grant that will support operations for a ...

A British climate-cooling balloon experiment would have sprayed water into the atmosphere to test its effect on reflecting sunlight. Heat waves. Drought. Storms. The extreme weather that has battered ...

Atmospheric aerosols, consisting of suspended small solid and liquid particles, influence both climate and air quality. Sub-micrometre-sized particles efficiently scatter visible radiation and can act ...

Researchers at MIT have been conducting observations of Earth's atmosphere, looking at aerosols created by natural sources and human activities. According to the results of their observations, ...

The large number of tiny organic aerosols floating in the atmosphere -- emitted from tailpipes and trees alike -- share enough common characteristics as a group that scientists can generalize their ...

It is possible to significantly slow down and even temporarily stop the progression of global warming by increasing the atmospheric aerosol concentration, shows a new study. However, climate ...

Rising 2,225 meters into the air on an island in the Azores archipelago, Pico Mountain Observatory is an ideal place to study aerosols--particles or liquids suspended in gases--that have traveled ...

AEROSOLS CAUSE as much warming in the lower atmosphere as anthropogenic greenhouse gases, and both appear to contribute equally to regional climate change, according to a direct aerial study of ...

A recent study carriedout by MIT has characterized the cleansing effect that raindrops haveon our atmosphere in removing aerosol and other pollutants from theair. The results of the research could be ...

The Deepwater Horizon spill gushed crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico from April 20 to July 15 last year. It was a devastating disaster that had an overwhelmingly negative effect on the environment.