They weren’t even looking for it—it showed up while tracking how pollution forms.

Cirrus-like clouds have been discovered on a giant planet 12 light-years away, a finding that could change the search for ...

New high-altitude measurements have revealed a hidden population of extremely small, organic-rich aerosol particles in the lower stratosphere. The findings suggest that these ultrafine aerosols, ...

A new study shows that a specific type of silicone, the so-called methylsiloxanes, is widely present in the atmosphere across ...

The ozone layer has been on track to recover thanks to the Montreal Protocol—but a loophole may be holding it back. Chemicals ...

The recovery of the ozone layer in Earth's stratosphere could be delayed by several years, according to an international ...

The environmental crises of the past often seem to disappear—have problems like acid rain and smog been solved?

The waters off the Pacific Northwest are becoming more acidic at a faster rate than the rest of the world's oceans, a global ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against a chemical manufacturer in Freefort for illegally releasing ...

The Max Planck Society is expanding its collaboration with China: On April 13, two new Max Planck Centers were officially ...

Astronomers can use telescopes to find specific molecules in the atmospheres of neighboring planets, in nebulae – clouds of ...