Atmospheric

What if nearly half of the cars on the road today were replaced by the electric kind, those vehicles that environmentalists and electric vehicle marketing groups claim are "90% efficient" and worth…

How bad is pollution in China? So bad you can see it from space. Wait, can't you do that in the US? Anyone who has flown into Los Angeles in the morning surely sees pollution.  This is different…

A wildfire started by three vagrants with drugs in their possession spread quickly in the foothills northeast of Los Angeles on January 16th, 2014. The plume of ash and smoke blanketed much of the…

CO2 gets most of the attention these days but it is not the only pollution the Arctic faces. The environment is complex and the daisy chain of effects is unclear. That's why researchers who…

Members of the public generally have a negative view of climate engineering, the deliberate large-scale manipulation of the environment to counteract climate change, according to a new paper. This…

We hear a lot about carbon storage and the impact on the atmosphere if CO2 is release during warming, but how does that work? Carbon is not evenly distributed in soil, instead the kinds of carbon hot…

A new paper in Nature estimates that global average temperatures will rise at least 4°C by 2100 and potentially more than 8°C by 2200 if carbon dioxide emissions worldwide are not reduced -  due…

 Red Mountain, an abandoned California magnesite mine, is providing geoscientists new insights on how to permanently entomb greenhouse gas emissions in the Earth. The Red Mountain mine is…

Global warming has been hopelessly politicized since a Kyoto Treaty was jammed through over objections and then basically ignored by everyone.  A science basis for American cars causing global…

Extraction using hydraulic fracturing - fracking - has made North America the world's largest producer of oil and gas, while US CO2 emissions from energy have dropped back to early 1990s levels and…