Look up on a clear night and you'll see the streaks of our new space age. What you don't see is the growing fallout for the atmosphere that keeps us alive. A wave of satellite launches and reentries ...

Atmospheric chemistry is the study of the components of planetary atmospheres, particularly that of the Earth. It specifically looks at the composition of planetary atmospheres and the reactions and ...

A month-long mountaintop study in southeastern China shows that clouds selectively remove and chemically transform oxygenated ...

Space has never been more accessible than it is today. Launches have become an almost daily occurrence as companies and governments from around the world continue to build out satellite ...

An orange, striated sphere hangs in space with stars behind it with a line from it drawn to a box that contains a space-filling model of phosphine where phosphorus is orange and hydrogen is white.

Space junk returning to Earth is introducing metal pollution to the pristine upper atmosphere as it burns up on re-entry, a new study has found. Published today in the journal Communications Earth & ...

Methane levels in Earth’s atmosphere surged faster than ever in the early 2020s, and scientists say the reason was a surprising mix of chemistry and climate. A temporary slowdown in the atmosphere’s ...

A swampy area with plants growing from a large pool of brown water. Changes in the atmosphere’s ability to breakdown methane combined with increased methane emissions from wetlands in the tropical ...

This study was supported by the National Science Foundation under Award Number AGS-1449200. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication do not necessarily ...

As humans burn fossil fuels and pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, we are heating up the planet. But there is another alarming impact of this climate pollution: it may be changing the chemistry ...

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