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Soils on the Roof of the World Are Quietly Rewriting the Plateau’s Air Chemistry

The first integrated quantification of soil reactive nitrogen emissions on the Tibetan Plateau reveals that soils release substantial HONO and NOx that shape the region's atmospher...

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Team figures out how smog begins

"It's like nature was presenting us with a dish, and we had to guess how it was made. Now we have a recipe."

Venus' mysterious haze is actually cosmic dust

A physical model show that iron dust and sulfuric acid create the right properties.

Scientists Build Virtual Spacecraft to Predict Toxic Chemical Risks to Astronauts

Aboard a spacecraft, the air astronauts breathe is a closed loop, recycled endlessly through ducts, filters, and scrubbers with no open window to dilute whatever accumulates inside...

What happens to monsoon raindrops before they reach the ground?

Using stable isotopes to uncover a hidden step in Earth’s water cycle The Indian summer monsoon transforms South Asia’s landscape. Rivers swell, reservoirs replenish, crops receive...

First-Ever Simulation Reveals the Hidden Physics Inside a Ubiquitous Chemistry Detector

Cambridge researchers have built and experimentally validated the first complete physical simulation of the Evaporative Light Scattering Detector, tracing droplets from atomization...

Air pollution is the contamination of the atmosphere by harmful substances such as gases, smoke, dust, and particulate m...

 Air pollution is the contamination of the atmosphere by harmful substances such as gases, smoke, dust, and particulate matter. Major sources include vehicle exhaust, industrial...

HOW OUR CLIMATE WORKS

Palmer, a professor at the University of Edinburgh and the author of The Atmosphere: A Very Short Introduction (2017), emphasizes that he has not written a textbook, but readers wh...

Nature’s Carbon Cycle with Dr. Ganapathy Shanmugam | Climate Debrief

He explains how desert dust supplies iron and other nutrients that trigger phytoplankton blooms, strengthen the biological carbon pump, and support marine food webs. The post Natur...

Your Favorite Scented Cleaner Could Be Filling the Air With Invisible Pollution

Even botanical and essential oil-based cleaners can release fragrance compounds that react with indoor ozone, creating an unexpected source of ultrafine air pollution. The scent of...

How ocean chemistry helped life keep breathing

Scientists have helped solve a longstanding mystery about how Earth remained habitable after oxygen first accumulated in its atmosphere more than 2 billion years ago, providing evi...

Seaweed, Seagrass and Phytoplankton Shape the Ocean’s Iodine Cycle, Review Finds

Iodine is one of those elements that most people encounter only as a grain of salt on the dinner table, yet in the ocean it sits at the crossroads of climate regulation, human nutr...

Extreme Heat May Be Making India’s Air Pollution Problem Worse

Researchers found that concentrations of organic carbon particles can rise sharply during extreme heat, adding to the pollution already in the air.

Early Earth's auroral belts may have formed a natural ion-beam reactor for prebiotic chemistry

We usually think of auroras as beautiful lights in the night sky. I see them as visible traces of a connection between the sun, Earth's magnetic field and the atmosphere. This led...

Waste Catalyst Turned Air Purifier Destroys Formaldehyde at Room Temperature

Formaldehyde is one of the most stubborn pollutants in indoor air. It seeps slowly from furniture, adhesives, paints, and composite wood products, and long-term exposure is linked...

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How do cosmic rays from outer space enter Earth’s atmosphere?

Scientists have recreated how high-energy cosmic rays enter the Earth’s atmosphere and collide with our planet’s gases.

Venus's mysterious clouds may hide an exceptionally strong light absorber

New modeling shows Venus's unknown ultraviolet absorber must be exceptionally strong or concentrated, tightening the search for its chemical identity.

Our Powerful ‘Eye in the Sky’ Just Multiplied

  Next month, scientists and diplomats from all over the world will arrive in Antalya, Türkiye for the UN climate conference known as COP31. The host country wants to make global p...

Series of reactions reveals how complex carbon chemistry can begin in frigid space

Before there was Earth, there was chemistry. In the unimaginable cold, dark clouds where stars and planets are born, carbon molecules assemble into more complex forms—starting a ch...

Field of Environment Science

Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh inaugurates World's first- of -its-kind 'Air Pollution Analysis' facility for Delhi NCR

 Ministry of Earth SciencesUnion Minister Dr Jitendra Singh inaugurates World's first- of -its-kind 'Air Pollution Analysis' facility for Delhi NCR'Integrated Atmospheric Chemistry...

A Century-Old Mystery in Venus’s Clouds Just Got Even Stranger

A new model connects observations of Venus with the optical properties of the liquid inside its cloud droplets. Venus’s clouds look pale yellow from afar, but the liquid inside the...