Widespread extreme heat and human-caused air pollution have exposed nearly 40% of the global population to dangerous levels ...

A new study shows that traffic-related pollution in a major urban area in central Israel produces immediate, measurable changes in the atmospheric electric field, while particulate matter creates ...

A plume of upper-atmospheric lithium pollution observed in February 2025 has been attributed to the re-entry of a specific rocket stage. The results, published in Communications Earth & Environment, ...

Scientists could slow global warming with the aid of the atmospheric pollution generated by a surge in launches of space-bound rockets. According to Eloise Marais, a professor at University College, ...

A new 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 atmospheric ...

An aerial shot of the Arctic Ocean showing a large number of small and large pieces of ice. While ending the use of chlorofluorocarbons helped repair the hole in the ozone, the refrigerants that ...

Heat waves and wildfires combined with human-caused emissions this year to expose one-third of the world's population to ...

In this photo, the upper stage of a rocket has broken apart and leaves multiple bright yellow streaks in the night sky above the city. On Feb. 19, 2025, pieces of the upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket ...

New Delhi, Oct 8 (PTI) Particles present in Delhi's air could be making the fight against pollution difficult, as they obstruct sunlight reaching the ground and weaken winds that help disperse ...

Annemarije de Boer is a Los Angeles-based director and visual storyteller specializing in technology reviews and digital innovation journalism. Drawing from her BA in Psychology and decades of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image: Wikimedia Those dramatic fireballs streaking across European skies on February 19, 2025 weren't just space debris—they were ...