Wildfires have spread across the planet for millennia, but they are increasing as the climate warms. Decimated forests, ...

Light-absorbing brown carbon aerosols, emitted by wildfires, remain longer in the atmosphere than expected, which could have implications for climate predictions.

In the late 2010s, when Assistant Professor Flavio Lehner worked for the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, ...

Atmospheric scientists have long suspected that microscopic aerosol particles from industrial processes increase the brightness of clouds, resulting in greater reflection of sunlight and cooling ...

Clouds play an important role in regulating the climate. Bright ones at low altitudes generally reflect solar energy away, ...

Putting aerosols in the stratosphere to reflect sunlight could prevent the shutdown of key ocean currents, but only if it is ...

Injecting aerosols into the atmosphere – but at higher altitudes than planes can reach – could cool the climate while ...

Climate scientists say this will help them better understand how changing levels of different atmospheric aerosols impact the planet's energy balance and global temperature trends.

The spatial distribution of ambient aerosol particles plays a huge role in aerosol–radiation–cloud interactions; however, not enough sampling has been done from the atmospheric boundary layer ...

"The atmospheric lidar brings us completely new insight into the vertical distribution of clouds and aerosols and, together with the other instruments, puts us on course to gaining new scientific ...

Kimberly Prather, an atmospheric chemist at UC San Diego, is one of 20 scientists being honored by the National Academy of Sciences for extraordinary achievements, it was announced Monday.

Sea spray aerosols, which form when ocean waves fling particles into the atmosphere, can impact climate in a variety of ways. But their small size and chemical complexity make them hard to study or ...