To reduce air pollution associated with ocean transport, the International Maritime Organization tightened restrictions on ...

Winter is setting in across the Northern Hemisphere, and with it, cold and cloudy winter days. Clouds play a vital role in the environment, providing rain but also reflecting sunlight before it ...

People’s ability to interpret emotions or focus on performing a task is reduced by short-term exposure to particulate matter (PM) air pollution, potentially making everyday activities, such as the ...

NEW DELHI — Indian authorities on Tuesday carried out a cloud-seeding experiment over smog-choked New Delhi in an attempt to induce rainfall and clear the city’s toxic air, which has sparked anger ...

Scientists discovered massive microplastics forming plastic clouds over Chinese cities, raising concerns about human health, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - New satellite studies analyzing the impact on clouds from oceangoing ships suggest that airborne particles from pollution or other causes can have a drying effect on some clouds and a ...

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BEIJING -- A dirty brown haze sometimes more than a mile thick is darkening skies not only over vast areas of Asia, but also in the Middle East, southern Africa and the Amazon Basin, changing weather ...

India's efforts to combat air pollution by using cloud seeding in its sprawling capital New Delhi appear to have fallen flat, with scientists and activists questioning the effectiveness of the move.