Have you ever seen the billowing smoke plume coming from a fire? Sometimes it looks white, sometimes gray, and sometimes almost black. And it usually smells different depending on what is burning.

Spacecraft burning up in the atmosphere are leaving behind metal particles. Scientists are racing to understand if that affects the climate. One risk is that these particles may spark rainbow-colored ...

Jonathan Blades from Asthma + Lung UK explains the rising concern and health impacts related to air pollution caused by ...

It has long been known that biomass burning – burning forests to create agricultural lands, burning savannah as a ritual , slash-and-burn agriculture and wildfires – figures into both climate change ...

What Are Atmospheric Aerosols Exactly Aerosols refer to fine solid or liquid particles suspended in the atmosphere, where ...

More than 100 scientists from around the world met in Shizuoka, Japan, last week to discuss the physics of energetic particles and instabilities in fusion plasmas – the state of matter in which nuclei ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A wood-burning ban has been issued by the ...