The most polluted U.S. communities from five years ago are still the most polluted today, 50 years after passage of the Clean Air Act amendments of 1970.

New study elucidates the complex relaxation kinetics of supercooled water using a pulsed laser heating technique at previously inaccessible temperatures.

Soil texture and environmental history play a strong role in how different soils respond to moisture extremes like drought and flood.

Researchers used instruments in an airborne lab to characterize aerosol particles and their sources over the remote Eastern North Atlantic.

Seeking a deeper understanding of when, where, and why large wildfires occur using explainable artificial intelligence.

Local ionic strength within zeolite pores tailors the chemical potential of reacting molecules, leading to high cyclohexanol dehydration activity

Urban pollution greatly increases the number of particles over the Amazon, mainly through new particle formation controlled by biogenic gases.

Research shows that previous drought and flooding conditions strongly influence soil respiration and carbon composition.

Research shows that erosional nutrient fluxes linked to extreme rains may complicate efforts to reduce nutrient enrichment in the Gulf of Mexico.

New research shows that a warmer ocean strengthens the North Pacific westerly jet stream, steering more storms toward California.

Spectroscopic experiments reveal significant variations in the electronic structures of actinide tetrafluorides despite their nearly identical crystal structures.

Researchers found that using deep neural networks can significantly enhance the resolution of observations from weather radars.

Principles derived from coastal wetlands to describe wetland channel cross-sections were applicable to the Columbia River estuary, but not the tidal river.

Field campaign data shows that biologically-derived emissions largely control the formation of organic aerosol in the Southern Great Plains.

Researchers found that warmer local sea surfaces increase the winter snowpack in the Sierra Nevada mountains, but reduce snowpack in the Cascade range.

Researchers developed a novel database of global mesoscale convective systems to reveal storm characteristics and rainfall contributions.

Tetranuclear molybdenum sulfide clusters encaged in zeolites mimic the FeMo-cofactor of nitrogenase, offering a new opportunity for improving industrial hydrotreatment processes.

New research uncovers the mechanism of carbon dioxide reduction by metal-O-Fe bonds of single-metal atoms and metal nanoparticles supported by oxidic surfaces.

Researchers used deep learning methods to estimate the subsurface permeability of a watershed from stream discharge measurements.

Adding an advanced atmospheric aerosol treatment to a climate model enables assessments of the radiative effects of nitrate aerosols.