Springtime measurements in a Helsinki street canyon show that coarse road-dust particles can inflate urban light absorption readings by up to 41 percent, complicating black carbon monitoring and ...

A model suggests that Venus’s lower haze is formed by cosmic dust from meteoroids, with iron sulfate potentially explaining ...

What nobody knew then was that the haze is an accumulation of particles from meteorites. “Shooting stars” that burn up in the ...

Dust particles thrown up from deserts such as the Sahara and Gobi are playing a previously unknown role in air pollution, a new study has found. The international study published in National Science ...

Cars on the road could soon transform from sources of air pollution into moving air purifiers. Korean researchers have ...

A dust haze has descended over Sydney and the Illawara, with some suburbs reporting "hazardous" air quality. According to NSW Health, dust particles can cause irritated eyes, nose and throat, and ...

Fine dust that you can’t see lurks in the air inside any heavily used workshop, and it does serious damage to your lungs over time. Not all dust is equal: Silica, metal, wood, and fibrous dust carry ...

About 70 percent of fine dust particles found in South Korean skies come from neighboring Northeast Asian countries such as China, a recent study shows. According to an analysis of the state-run Korea ...