Extending the coverage of PM2.5 monitoring to help improve air quality
Credit: Liang Ran Air pollution, especially the particulate matter in the atmosphere, can result in poor air quality and visibility, ...
Tag: Atmospheric Science
Artificial night sky poses serious threat to coastal species
Credit: John Spicer, University of Plymouth The artificial lighting which lines the world's coastlines could be having a significant impact ...
NASA observes large Saharan dust plume over Atlantic ocean
Credit: Credits: NASA Worldview NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite observed a huge Saharan dust plume streaming over the North Atlantic Ocean, ...
How tear gas affects your body (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, June 19, 2020 -- 2-Chlorobenzalmalononitrile, better known as CS gas, is one of the ...
Human activity on rivers outpaces, compounds effects of climate change
Credit: Photo courtesy Jim Best CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The livelihoods of millions of people living along the world's biggest river ...
Geologists shed light on the tibetan plateau origin puzzle: an open-and-shut perspective
Scientists suggest a new 'opening-closing' tectonic theory to explain the origin of the Tibetan PlateauCredit: Earth Science Frontiers Earth's geographical ...
Leipzig research balloon becomes platform for Arctic atmosphere measurements in MOSAiC
Researchers from TROPOS and the University of Leipzig make a major contribution to the success of the largest Arctic expeditionCredit: ...
RV Polarstern returns to the MOSAiC floe
New team continues fieldwork in the ArcticCredit: Photo: Alfred Wegener Institute / Lisa Grosfeld After a month's absence, on 17 ...
NIST adds new ‘fingerprints’ to chemical identification database
The NIST Mass Spectral Library has expanded to include new human and plant metabolites, variants of fentanyl and other synthetic ...
Half of the world’s population exposed to increasing air pollution, study shows
Credit: Professor Gavin Shaddick/University of Exeter Half of the world's population is exposed to increasing air pollution, new research has ...
NASA follows Tropical Storm Nuri’s path
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview An animation of four days of imagery from NASA's Terra satellite showed the progression and landfall ...
NASA catches development of Tropical Cyclone Nuri in South China Sea
Credit: NASA/Worldview A low-pressure system that developed in the Philippine Sea and tracked over the central Philippines has moved into ...
Together they stay alive longer
How tuberculosis pathogens protect themselves from drying out in the airCredit: Elisabeth Pfrommer, Heinrich-Pette-Institute / FZ Borstel Hamburg/Borstel/Leipzig. The tuberculosis ...
Radioactive cloud over Europe had civilian background
Isotope measurements on air filters: researchers investigated undeclared nuclear release / Study in "Nature Communications"Credit: Dorian Zok/LUH A mysterious cloud ...
Fuel walking and cycling with low carbon diets, researchers say
Credit: University of Otago Walking and cycling have many benefits and help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but researchers say we ...
Island ‘drowning’ is not inevitable as sea levels rise
Credit: Gerd Masselink/University of Plymouth Coral reef islands across the world could naturally adapt to survive the impact of rising ...
How stimulus dollars are spent will affect emissions for decades
To tackle COVID-19 and climate change, government spending must deliver jobs and growth alongside deep decarbonizationCredit: angkhan The COVID-19 pandemic ...
NASA finds post-tropical depression Cristobal soaking the Great Lakes
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL NASA's GPM satellite gathered data on what is now Post-Tropical Cyclone Cristobal and revealed some areas of ...
New ‘sun clock’ quantifies extreme space weather switch on/off
200 years of sunspot observations used by University of Warwick researchers to create 'sun clock'Credit: University of Warwick Extreme space ...
Scientists present new method for remote sensing of atmospheric dynamics
Credit: Alexander Rodin/MIPT Physicists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have developed a new method for wind speed ...
