Have you ever seen the billowing smoke plume coming from a fire? Sometimes it looks white, sometimes gray, and sometimes almost black. And it usually smells different depending on what is burning.

Spacecraft burning up in the atmosphere are leaving behind metal particles. Scientists are racing to understand if that affects the climate. One risk is that these particles may spark rainbow-colored ...

What Are Atmospheric Aerosols Exactly Aerosols refer to fine solid or liquid particles suspended in the atmosphere, where ...

It has long been known that biomass burning – burning forests to create agricultural lands, burning savannah as a ritual , slash-and-burn agriculture and wildfires – figures into both climate change ...

A large new study suggests that breathing polluted air for many years may increase the risk of depression in older adults, ...

More than 100 scientists from around the world met in Shizuoka, Japan, last week to discuss the physics of energetic particles and instabilities in fusion plasmas – the state of matter in which nuclei ...

In this interview with Homecrux, Glory Dolphin Hammes, CEO of IQAir North America, discusses the hazards of burning candles ...

Burning candles is a simple pleasure, but do the smoke and chemicals they release in your home have negative health effects? We spoke to experts to find out. If you love burning candles in your home, ...