Ancient carbon once presumed safely entombed beneath Earth’s surface is now bubbling back into the atmosphere through the ...

While atmospheric rivers are an incredibly important source of rainfall ... Western Europe and North Africa also experience frequent atmospheric rivers, as do New Zealand and Australia.

Dust storms are producing deadly hidden air pollution by transforming mineral grains into chemical reactors, impacting health ...

but also escape into the atmosphere from seawater. Researchers present data on the composition and sources of different types of plastic in the air over the North Atlantic and the origin of the ...

Some of the plumes, detected by NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation mission ... We have to do both.” Atmospheric methane often leaks from natural gas and waste management ...

The source of the upcoming wet week is an atmospheric river storm originating from the Pacific in an area north of Hawaii. Atmospheric river storms are the biggest “rivers” on Earth.

And a separate U.N. report ... to become larger sources of greenhouse gases," WMO deputy chief Ko Barret warned. "Wildfires could release more carbon emissions into the atmosphere, whilst the ...

Here, Johns Hopkins environmental engineer Scot Miller discusses the implications of a new study on the source of climate-changing methane. Methane is the second-most important long-lived greenhouse ...

In fact, he says, these seem to date back to the 1940s during World War II when meteorologists were advising Allied forces in the North Atlantic Theater. Atmospheric river, he says, is similar.

"How much carbon dioxide is the problem," he asks. "How much carbon dioxide is in the atmosphere? It's 0.04%. And of that 0.04%, human beings around the world create 3%. And of that 3%, Australia ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Fall is here and so, too, is the potential for the West Coast to see atmospheric rivers return to the forecast. The Pacific Northwest will miss out on the opportunity to ...