A tiny particle of dust, lifted from a faraway desert, can travel thousands of miles on the wind. You would never see it. You would never feel it. Yet, new research shows this invisible traveler has a ...

Drawing on 35 years of satellite observations, an international research team led by ETH Zurich found that mineral dust – ...

Mechanism is vital in influencing how much sunlight clouds reflect – and whether or not they produce rain or snow ...

The mechanism makes a major difference: the freezing of cloud droplets at higher altitudes means more sunlight is bounced ...

The early hurricane season tends to have tropical storms and not hurricanes, but conditions are ripening for the start of the ...

Aerosols, small particles in the atmosphere like salt and dust, may offset a third of human-caused climate warming, though their influence is fading.

An industrial accident at a cement plant sent up a dust cloud over Yreka on Tuesday morning, prompting Siskiyou County ...