A plume of upper-atmospheric lithium pollution observed in February 2025 has been attributed to the re-entry of a specific rocket stage. The results, published in Communications Earth & Environment, ...

Picture this: You're stuck in traffic on a summer afternoon, checking the weather app on your phone as dark storm clouds roll in. You might think about power outages or possible flooding, but you ...

Scientists have uncovered new evidence that fireworks can pollute both the air and water in ways that extend beyond the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock For about two days after pollution from people and wildfires fills the air, the atmosphere may warm instead ...

Cities are rapidly becoming the defining residential space of human life. Over 55% of the global population lived in urban areas in 2018, a proportion projected to reach nearly 68% by 2050, according ...

A new study on ice cores from Alaska and Greenland found that air pollution from the burning of fossil fuels reaches the remote Arctic in amounts large enough to alter its fundamental atmospheric ...

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Scientists could slow global warming with the aid of the atmospheric pollution generated by a surge in launches of space-bound rockets. According to Eloise Marais, a professor at University College, ...

In this photo, the upper stage of a rocket has broken apart and leaves multiple bright yellow streaks in the night sky above the city. On Feb. 19, 2025, pieces of the upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket ...

A rocket blasts off from a launchpad into a cloudy sky. A recent surge in space pollution is largely coming from the increasing launch of megaconstellations, such as SpaceX’s Starlink satellites, ...

On February 19, 2025, a Falcon 9 rocket fell back toward Earth in an uncontrolled reentry, producing a massive fireball in the skies over Europe. On its way down, the rocket came near a lidar station ...