China is cleaning up its sulfur pollution, but the drop in airborne particles is revealing additional warming that concerns scientists.

Covering 70% of the earth's surface, oceans provide climate regulation by absorbing 25 percent of all carbon emissions as a crucial sink for anthropogenic carbon, which subsequently enables the ...

Earth is taking in more energy than it releases back to space—a growing "energy imbalance" that is fueling global warming. A new study led by scientists at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of ...

Air pollution has a "dramatic" impact on the amount of sunlight reaching Earth’s surface, reveals new research. Solar radiative energy declined in large parts of the world from the 1950s to the 1980s ...

While visions of improved recreational options for the Blue Earth River may be a silver lining to the Rapidan Dam failure, the significant increase in pollution downstream is troubling at best and ...

A cyclist wears a protective face mask while riding during heavy smog in Belgrade, Serbia, on Nov. 1, 2022. Smog spewing from ancient coal-fired power plants, outdated automobiles and heating systems ...

TODAY IS EARTH DAY, APRIL 22ND, SO ENVIRONMENTALISTS USE THIS DAY TO ENCOURAGE ALL OF US TO KEEP OUR PLANET HEALTHY. METEOROLOGIST ELLEN ADLER VISITED THE GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTER TO LEARN MORE ABOUT ...

As final negotiations for an international plastics treaty get underway this week in Busan, South Korea, scientists warn that the global plastics crisis is far more dangerous than previously thought.

A plume of upper-atmospheric lithium pollution observed in February 2025 has been attributed to the re-entry of a specific rocket stage. The results, published in Communications Earth & Environment, ...