Heatwaves have become more frequent as the world cleans up harmful aerosol pollution, unmasking more of the warming effects ...

Atmospheric and economic drivers of global air pollution Date: April 8, 2024 Source: University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences Summary: Carbon monoxide ...

Inversely, air pollution affects climate change because the release of pollutants (i.e. burning fossil fuels) lets chemicals and gas out into the atmosphere, and atmospheric ozone warms the climate.

However, air pollution is quickly removed from the atmosphere, and the recent acceleration in global warming from this particular unmasking may therefore be short-lived.

The current infrastructure also isn’t set up to fully account for the shifting behavior of wildfire smoke, which can travel ...

Air pollution isn't just bad for your lungs—it may be eroding your brain. In a sweeping review covering nearly 30 million ...

So ton for ton, it’s a much stronger warming agent than carbon dioxide. It doesn’t last as long in the atmosphere as CO2, but while it’s in the air, it’s a dangerous greenhouse gas.

A Dartmouth-led study on ice cores from Alaska and Greenland found that air pollution from the burning of fossil fuels reaches the remote Arctic in amounts large enough to alter its fundamental ...