Over the past two decades, microplastics (MPs) and nanoplastics (NPs) have been recognized as emerging pollutants, detected ...

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OVER THE NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN — The interior of the plane looked like a cross between a private luxury jet and a space mission control room. The Gulfstream IV cruised at 43,000 feet, high above a ...

PFAS, short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are not called "forever chemicals" for nothing. These ...

In the 1990s, scientists began to use the term "atmospheric river" to refer to strips of water vapor in the air that can be as narrow as a few hundred miles wide, but thousands of miles long. They ...

In our daily lives, dust is little more than a nuisance to be wiped away. On a global scale however, dust carried around the world on air currents has an impact on planetary temperatures. A new study ...

A new study published in Atmospheric Environment by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill analyzed space and time trends for fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in the continental ...