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 ...

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The sun rises each day, but the amount of sunlight reaching Earth’s surface is not as constant as we might think. A new study ...

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 ...

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

the scientists determined how much metal contamination stemmed from human activities. To strengthen their findings, they then examined data from the National Atmospheric Deposition Program that ...

Improve your understanding of atmospheric processes and impacts related to climate change, emissions, transport, and transformation of air pollution. Learn new fundamental physical and chemical ...

Wild fig tree rings offer a cheap method for tracking toxic atmospheric mercury, a byproduct of gold mining in the Global South, according to a new study.