When a volcano erupts, it can spew ash high into the atmosphere鈥攊nserting aerosols right where clouds typically form. How exactly these aerosols impact cloud formation has long been a mystery to atmospheric scientists.
Mercury (Hg) is a naturally occurring element found across the globe, yet it becomes highly toxic as it accumulates up the food chain. Pollution from human activities has pumped increasing amounts of mercury into the atmosphere, ...
A research team has developed a novel aerosol-based emulsion system that enables the self-assembly of asymmetric nanostructures鈥攕omething long considered a major challenge in materials science. The team includes researchers ...
Air pollution with particulate matter smaller than 1 micrometer has fallen by an average of 5% annually in rural Saxony. However, the decreases were particularly marked in air masses coming from Eastern Europe: PM1 concentrations ...
Since last fall, NASA scientists have flown an advanced 3D Doppler wind lidar instrument across the United States to collect nearly 100 hours of data鈥攊ncluding a flight through a hurricane. The goal? To demonstrate the ...
A technique to cool the planet, in which particles are added to the atmosphere to reflect sunlight, would not require developing special aircraft but could be achieved using existing large planes, according to a new modeling ...
The accumulation of toxic elements poses a significant threat to terrestrial ecosystems, with the patterns and influencing factors of this accumulation being complex. However, elevational patterns of toxic elements in montane ...
A research team led by Prof. Shi Chong from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Japanese scientists, has made a significant advancement in satellite-based ...
Multiple plans exist to explore Mars in the coming decades using robotic and crewed missions. The ultimate goal of these missions is to determine whether human beings could live there someday. This requires access to building ...
An international study led by the University of Eastern Finland and the Finnish Meteorological Institute has demonstrated that the formation and properties of lower-atmosphere clouds are highly sensitive to changes in atmospheric ...
