Local pollution cuts haven’t lowered ozone because transported pollution and global emissions now dominate exposure.

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Earth is getting darker; the planet itself, when viewed from space, appears darker than it did in the past. The upper half actually appears to be getting darker than the bottom ...

Our planet is sick, and its life-threatening symptoms are getting worse, a new report warns. Earth has been pushed past multiple physical and chemical boundaries crucial for keeping the world a ...

Air pollution has a "dramatic" impact on the amount of sunlight reaching Earth’s surface, reveals new research. Solar radiative energy declined in large parts of the world from the 1950s to the 1980s ...

Earth is taking in more energy than it releases back to space—a growing "energy imbalance" that is fueling global warming. A new study led by scientists at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of ...

The cosmos has a way of making us feel small, but a recent visitor from the stars is making some scientists feel watched. Imagine a high-tech eye, drifting through the vacuum of space for millennia, ...

In a new study that took advantage of the worldwide shutdown of human activity during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers from Ateneo de Manila University—Manila Observatory and University of Arizona ...

Fifty years ago, a familiar conflict was playing out south of Silver City. State and federal regulators were trying to implement stricter controls on sulfur dioxide pollution from a Hurley smelter.

Earth Day started in 1970 when people — including Wisconsin Sen. Gaylord Nelson — brought attention to the impact oil spills, pollution and smog were having on the planet. "Then in January 1969, he ...