Reductions in air pollution have helped warm the planet by cutting down on reflective particles in the atmosphere – but researchers still disagree on the size of this effect ...

Seen from afar—as it first was, by human eyes, on Christmas Eve 1968—Earth is a wonder. When the astronauts of Apollo 8 saw ...

In 2020, strict rules were put in place to slash cargo-ship emissions. Five years on, it appears to have been less than ...

For the past few years, scientists have watched, aghast, as global temperatures have surged ... combined with decreasing air pollution that cools the earth, would cause temperatures to skyrocket.

Earth’s prolonged streak of abnormal heat continued into 2025 despite the arrival of La Niña ocean conditions, which ...

Is industrial agriculture both ruining air quality and delaying climate change? Aerosols—suspensions of fine solid particles ...

Could a sudden drop in pollution from cargo vessels criss-crossing global shipping lanes be inadvertently making the world ...

Scientists link global warming to lower sulfur pollution from ships. Fewer ship aerosols mean less sunlight reflection, allowing heat to stay.

“If you implement technologies to reduce air pollution, this will accelerate – very significantly – global warming in the short term.” The Chinese and Indian environment ministries didn ...

Cleaner air's impact requires a steeper reduction in human-emitted methane to meet global targets. A new study reveals that ...

Improved computer models shed light on how reducing sulphur emissions will inadvertently release methane from wetlands.

Reducing sulphur in the air may inadvertently increase natural emissions of methane from wetlands such as peatlands and swamps, a new study has found. The resulting additional future release of 20-34 ...