While we will catch a little break in the haziness throughout the day, it's this evening through the overnight that we will ...

Oceans release microplastics into the atmosphere Study determines composition and sources of the microplastics Date: August 17, 2023 Source: University of Oldenburg Summary: Tiny plastic particles ...

Microplastics and nanoplastics in the marine-atmosphere environment. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2022; DOI: 10.1038/s43017-022-00292-x ...

Many salts, chemical cousins of the familiar sodium chloride, will readily snatch water out of the air. With this in mind, an engineering team led by Peng Wang at King Abdullah University of ...

The future of organic glow-in-the-dark materials is shining brightly now thanks to a study reporting a way to make the easily-processed, low-cost materials stable in air (Nat. Mater. 2021, DOI: 10 ...

The Awair Glow C is a successor of sorts to the Awair Glow, a small air-quality monitor that also acts as a smart plug to automate “dumb” appliances in response to changes in air quality. That ...

Unlike Earth’s oxygen-rich atmosphere, Mars’ is comprised mostly of carbon dioxide (CO2). Mars’ glow occurs from a breakdown in these CO2 molecules.

“We found a lot of legacy plastic pollution everywhere we looked; it travels in the atmosphere and it deposits all over the world,” said lead author Janice Brahney in a news release from ...

On Wednesday, ash rained down and the thick smoke layer high in the atmosphere blotted out the sun, turning the sky in the region red, orange and yellow. That surreal look made the air appear to ...