To put the Himalayan data into context, researchers compared it with Mauna Loa, the world’s most referenced clean-air ...

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Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, appears to have the right ingredients and conditions for a certain kind of tiny bubble to form ...

Landfills are responsible for the release of toxins and harmful substances into the atmosphere. More than half of the world's waste — 59% in fact — ends up in landfills. In the US, they are the third ...

Satellites circling Earth have many different functions, including navigation, communications and Earth observation. About 8% ...

New research indicates that cellular "pockets" that are the first step toward protocells, the precursors of life, could form ...

China’s smog reducing efforts improved public health - but may have accelerated global warming by reducing sunlight-reflecting aerosols.

The rebate applications come as Continental, oil and gas trade groups and Republican attorneys general continue to fight the ...

For decades, scientists believed water was the essential cradle for life. But new research suggests life’s building blocks ...

WASP-121b, an already unusual planet, might have a remote origin that explains some of its peculiar properties—from iron rain ...

It is not a moment too soon to be connecting the dots between climate pollution and chaotic weather so that we can solve the ...

Conor Nixon, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, says that finding vesicles on Titan would show an ...