What are aerosols and droplets all about anyway? (Image: Quinn Lemmers for Yahoo Life/Stocksy) Experts first isolated SARS-CoV-2 in aerosols back in March, but the extent to which the virus spreads ...

An experimental study has quantified the volume of aerosol particles generated by flushing toilets in a public restroom. The real-world research suggests even with lids closed flushing toilets can ...

Editor's note: On July 9, the World Health Organization acknowledged that coronavirus could potentially be spread through the air under certain conditions. When someone coughs, talks or even breathes, ...

Fossil fuels are rapidly warming the planet, and the aerosols from their combustion kill millions of people each year. So we need to rapidly decarbonize. But in an ironic twist, those aerosols ...

Light-absorbing brown carbon aerosols, emitted by wildfires, remain longer in the atmosphere than expected, which could have implications for climate predictions. Rising 2,225 meters into the air on ...

Atmospheric aerosols from human activity influence climate. Uncertainties in the understanding of their effects limit our knowledge about climate change. Aa Aa Aa What is the source and composition of ...

Aerosols in air pollution cause negative health impacts, but they also help cool cities by deflecting the sun’s rays. A new study found that as aerosols decline in populated areas, the risk of ...

Greenhouse gases may get more attention, but aerosols -- from car exhaust to volcanic eruptions -- also have a major impact on the Earth's climate. Using a massive NASA dataset, researchers have ...

A version of this story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of an ongoing collaboration. A trope of sci-fi movies these days, from Snowpiercer to Geostorm, is that our failure ...

Chemists have discovered that tiny particulate matter called aerosols lofted into the atmosphere by sea spray and the bursting of bubbles at the ocean’s surface are chemically altered by the presence ...