Efforts to clean up air pollution in China and across East Asia may have inadvertently contributed to a spike in global warming, a new study has found.

Aerosols are fine particulates that float in the atmosphere. Many are natural, but those haven’t increased or decreased much over the centuries.

The speeding up of global warming has been largely driven by cuts to air pollution in China and wider East Asia, scientists ...

Clouds play an important role in regulating the climate. Bright ones at low altitudes generally reflect solar energy away, ...

Atmospheric scientists have long suspected that microscopic aerosol particles from industrial processes increase the brightness of clouds, resulting in greater reflection of sunlight and cooling ...

Light-absorbing brown carbon aerosols, emitted by wildfires, remain longer in the atmosphere than expected, which could have implications for climate predictions. Rising 2,225 meters into the air on ...

Wildfires have spread across the planet for millennia, but they are increasing as the climate warms. Decimated forests, ...

The spatial distribution of ambient aerosol particles plays a huge role in aerosol–radiation–cloud interactions; however, not enough sampling has been done from the atmospheric boundary layer ...

According to NASA, the PACE satellite can map atmospheric aerosols and differentiate how they absorb light and heat, characterizing them as "light" or "dark" in nature. Climate scientists say this ...

Atmospheric aerosols are particles that are 100–10,000 times smaller than the diameter of a hair, and their concentration in the atmosphere is in the range of hundreds to hundreds of thousands per ...

Sea spray aerosols, which form when ocean waves fling particles into the atmosphere, can impact climate in a variety of ways. But their small size and chemical complexity make them hard to study or ...

UCSD Chemist Kimberly Prather Wins Award for ‘Revolutionary’ Atmospheric Aerosol Research by Elizabeth Ireland • Times of San Diego Jan. 22, 2024, 10:30 p.m. Jan. 23, 2024, 6:42 a.m.