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There have been some wildly ambitious schemes to knock the power out of hurricanes and cyclones over the years. Now, ...
Aerosols have an outsized effect on the planet’s climate. Some of them, like black and brown carbon, warm the Earth’s atmosphere, while others, like sulfate droplets, cool it.
And where those emissions happen. The impact is also tied to geography. “The total number of infant deaths that we get from a given amount of aerosol emissions, say coming from India, is about ...
Aerosols are more important when it comes to transmitting COVID-19 than we thought six months ago—and we need to act accordingly.
Scientists believe tanker planes could spray sulfur dioxide aerosol in the upper atmosphere over Earth’s poles to help them refreeze.; The temperatures of Earth’s poles could be cooled by ...
Injecting aerosols into the atmosphere – but at higher altitudes than planes can reach – could cool the climate while ...
Aerosol spray cans may not seem all too dangerous, but they've actually wreaked havoc. So badly, in fact, that the world at large couldn't help but take notice.
In exhaled aerosols, SARS-CoV-2’s infectivity can drop by 90% in 20 minutes depending on environmental conditions. In exhaled aerosols, ... (RH) of the aerosol’s new environment.
Stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI, also called stratospheric particle injection, SPI) is one of the bolder and more controversial methods of solar radiation management. It involves planes, balloons ...