The sun may rise every morning, but the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth’s surface can substantially vary over decades.

Sunlight reaching Earth’s surface isn’t as stable as we might think—it’s actually fluctuated dramatically over the decades due to pollution and clean air efforts. An international team of researchers ...

Solar radiative energy declined in large parts of the world from the 1950s to the 1980s - known as "global dimming" - before a partial recovery since. The post Does air pollution affect how much ...

THE seventeenth report on atmospheric pollution issued by the Department for Scientific and Industrial Research records investigations made in Great Britain in the year preceding March 31 ...

Kilometers above the Earth’s surface, the ozone layer protects humanity and all life from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays.

DRI scientists have previously used atmospheric pollution records preserved in Arctic ice cores to identify periods of lead ...

Symptoms of climate change, such as extreme weather events and wildfires, can significantly impact air quality, potentially ...

a scientist warned that the rocket's spectacular demise may have caused significant amounts of atmospheric pollution. That's about 35 percent of all the aluminum that enters the atmosphere from ...

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has issued an Ozone Action Day, also known as an Air Quality Alert, for the ...

Mar. 12, 2025 — New Delhi's air pollution is more severe than previously estimated with particles absorbing atmospheric water vapor leading to particulate matter levels across the city being ...

Snow in the Rockies now silently carries toxic metals from mines, revealing long-range pollution by winter storms.

A new generation of roaming air pollution sensors, powered by artificial intelligence, can improve the accuracy of air ...