Cleaning up the air we breathe may be a win for public health, but it also speeds up global warming. That's according to a recent study published in Communications Earth and Environment Journal, which ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Beijing on a clear day. Pexels A new study finds a drop in air pollution likely drove a recent surge in warming. Warming has ...

Since the Industrial Revolution—an event made possible by the use of fossil fuels in everything from power plants to transportation—Earth has gotten hotter. 2024 was the hottest year on record and the ...

China has massively cleaned up its air pollution problem, but that might have caused some complications, with a polluted sky ...

Cleaning the air could accelerate global warming, and scientists are testing cloud brightening to cool the planet ...

The world has “seriously underestimated” the rate of global warmingand its impact on the economy, as scientists call for an urgent “recovery plan”. A new report from the Institute and Faculty of ...

The findings, published Monday in Nature Climate Change, show that colored micro- and nanoplastics suspended in the atmosphere may contribute to global warming at a level equal to 16% of that caused ...

The cleanup of air pollution in East Asia has accelerated global warming, a new study published today (Monday, 14 July) in the journal Communications Earth and Environment has found. Global warming, ...

Government officials, local authorities, health professionals, and civil society are gathering today at the second global conference on air pollution and health in Cartagena, Colombia. As ...

Global warming has picked up pace since around 2010, leading to the recent string of record warm years. Why this is happening is still unclear, and among the biggest questions in climate science today ...

Scientists could slow global warming with the aid of the atmospheric pollution generated by a surge in launches of ...