China is cleaning up its sulfur pollution, but the drop in airborne particles is revealing additional warming that concerns scientists.

First direct evidence shows rocket reentries can release lithium into the upper atmosphere. Measurements by Robin Wing et al. confirm pollution from a Falcon 9 reentry in February 2025.

While visions of improved recreational options for the Blue Earth River may be a silver lining to the Rapidan Dam failure, the significant increase in pollution downstream is troubling at best and ...

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 ...

Space junk returning to the 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 ...

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.

As final negotiations for an international plastics treaty get underway this week in Busan, South Korea, scientists warn that the global plastics crisis is far more dangerous than previously thought.

Ten years ago, there were about 1,200 satellites in orbit around the earth. Now there are about 12,000 and the numbers are growing rapidly. Starlink alone has 9,000 satellites in its communications ...

RAPIDAN, Minn. — The water quality in the Blue Earth River has deteriorated significantly since the Rapidan Dam suffered a partial failure and sent nearly 12 million cubic yards of sediment behind the ...

Dear EarthTalk: Can you discuss pollutants in car interior materials, and also pollution inside cars originating from gasoline and diesel exhausts outside the car? — Mervyn Kline, Philadelphia, Pa.