EPA is tightening a key air pollution standard for the first time in more than a decade, overturning a Trump-era decision to leave soot regulations unchanged. Direct and indirect sources of airborne ...

Researchers have run the first large-scale field test of deliberately generated fire whirls over crude oil floating on water, ...

NASA scientists say soot, mostly from diesel engines, is causing as much as a quarter of all observed global warming by reducing the ability of snow and ice to reflect sunlight. Their findings on how ...

The exhaust from diesel-fueled vehicles, wood fires and coal-driven power stations contains small particles of soot that flow out into the atmosphere. The soot is a scourge for the climate but also ...

Soot is one of mankind's oldest pollutants. Cavemen blackened their walls with it. During the Industrial Revolution, soot so thoroughly coated the English countryside that white moths died out and ...

Residents across Rochester may have woken up to a white substance on their cars following days of Canadian wildfire smoke engulfing the region. Could the two be connected? Indeed it could, according ...

A massive simulation of soot's climate effects finds that basic pollution controls could put a brake on global warming, erasing in a decade most of the last century's temperature change. Compared to ...

The result of a 4-year, 232-page climate assessment is in. Dirty burning, it turns out, is the second most important man-made contributor to global warming, behind carbon dioxide. In fact, soot ...

Q: We have a modified two-story home. The carpet in the upstairs bedrooms has a dark 1-inch stain on the edge above our garage. Our carpet is 18 years old, and we will probably replace it in the next ...

Soot particles from oil and wood heating systems as well as road traffic can pollute the air in Europe on a much larger scale than previously assumed. The evaluation of the sources during a measuring ...