Understanding the intricate chemical processes of the atmosphere is key to predicting and improving air quality. Among these ...

Arctic ice cores uncover how Roman lead pollution led to widespread IQ declines over 2,000 years ago, revealing impacts on ...

Using modern evidence of lead pollution and its health effects, the international team calculates that lead exposure in the ...

The change measured by the Mauna Loa Observatory was likely driven by wildfires and continued burning of fossil fuels, ...

Above the Earth’s surface there is a layer of gases known as the atmosphere. It not only provides the oxygen we need to survive, it also acts like a blanket trapping enough of the Sun’s heat ...

The findings give new insight into the dangers of urban wildfires that burn plastics and other chemicals in homes and ...

Atmospheric chemistry is just one example ... In the meantime, places with poor wintertime air quality could see particulate ...

Over the past 150 years or so, atmospheric lead pollution has largely resulted from burning fossil fuels, particularly the ubiquitous use of leaded gasoline starting in the 1920s—a practice that ...

Thailand's fight against air pollution Flying through Bangkok's cloudless blue skies, a small aircraft sprays a white mist over a thick haze of pea soup smog below. Thailand's worst smog happens ...

It's a method that's largely unproven, but Thailand's government is willing to try anything after air pollution in the ...

DRI scientists have previously used atmospheric pollution records preserved in Arctic ice cores to identify periods of lead pollution throughout the Roman Empire, and now new research expands on ...