Whenever humans arrive on Mars, they're going to find it a difficult place to exist. Mars is cold, with an average surface ...

China's cuts to aerosol emissions reduced sea ice loss, but it may have revealed a bigger story about climate change.

Leipzig/Mainz. The extent to which aerosol particles affect the climate depends on how much water the particles can hold in the atmosphere. The capacity to hold water is referred to as hygroscopicity ...

Aerosol particles play a key role in cooling the planet. They can either directly affect how much sunlight ends up on the surface of the Earth or indirectly through cloud formation, to which they ...

TPU researchers, as part of a scientific collaboration, have developed a spatial model that allows us to reliably predict how ...

China’s campaign to clean its skies has delivered measurable health benefits for hundreds of millions of people, but a ...

Global measurements and model calculations show that the complex relationship between the chemistry and climate impact of aerosol particles can be successfully captured by a simple formula. The extent ...

A new study finds that, contrary to previous beliefs, large amounts of aerosol particles can form over vast areas of the West Siberian taiga in the spring. When temperatures rise, this can have a ...