China's sweeping efforts to clean up its air have delivered one of the biggest public health success stories of recent decades. Since the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan was launched ...

The climate of the Earth over its history has varied from “snowball” conditions with global ice cover to “hothouse” conditions when glaciers all but disappeared. Over the past 10,000 years (current ...

A study finds disparities between developed and developing countries in contribution to global radiative forcing. Radiative forcing describes the net change in the flux of heat radiation due to ...

Carbonaceous aerosols affect the global radiative balance by absorbing and scattering radiation, which leads to warming or cooling of the atmosphere, respectively. Black carbon is the main ...

The Earth receives a continuous influx of energy from the Sun. Some of this energy is absorbed at the Earth’s surface or by the atmosphere, while some is reflected back to space. At the same time, the ...