Atmospheric aerosols may be small, ranging in size from a few nanometers to a few microns, but they have a big impact on climate. At the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, capabilities developed through the Laboratory ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 3, 2011
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China's success in improving air quality by cutting polluting emissions may have a negative knock-on effect on climate change overall, a new study has found.
Environment
Sep 29, 2020
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Volcanoes draw plenty of attention when they erupt. But new research led by the University of Washington shows that volcanoes leak a surprisingly high amount of their atmosphere- and climate-changing gases in their quiet ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 3, 2023
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People once believed the planet could always accommodate us. That the resilience of the Earth system meant nature would always provide. But we now know this is not necessarily the case. As big as the world is, our impact ...
Environment
Jun 4, 2023
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Researchers have shown for the first time that phytoplankton (plant life) in remote ocean regions can contribute to rare airborne particles that trigger ice formation in clouds. Results published this week (Wednesday 9 September) ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 9, 2015
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Smoke from the many wildfires burning in the West have made air quality hazardous for millions of people in the United States. And it is the very tiniest of the aerosol particles in that air that make it particularly harmful ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 6, 2020
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If they wanted to, nations around the world could release globe-cooling aerosols into the atmosphere or undertake other approaches to battle climate change, an authority on environmental law said Monday. He recommended international ...
Environment
Dec 13, 2012
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An international team of researchers has uncovered the reason that less lightning occurs over tropical oceans than over land. In their paper published in the journal Nature Communications, the group describes their multi-year ...
There are practical limits to the height at which aerosols may be deployed in the atmosphere to deflect incoming sunlight and countervail global warming. Very high-altitude injections might be more effective, but such climate ...
Environment
Mar 14, 2022
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As the COVID-19 virus continues to spread around the globe, studying aerosol and droplet transport within different environments can help establish effective, physics-informed measures for virus mitigation. One of the most ...
Soft Matter
Oct 20, 2020
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