Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen our fair share of thunderstorms across Colorado, bringing not just heavy rain and strong ...

With the recent couple days of non severe, isolated storms in the area, News Director Doug Raflik used images and video he ...

Urea is considered a possible key molecule in the origin of life. ETH researchers have discovered a previously unknown way in ...

Following the American example with acid rain, Europe now relies on cap-and-trade to help about 10,000 large industrial plants find the most economical way of reducing their global warming emissions.

Modern acid rain monitoring can no longer focus on sulphur alone. Agricultural ammonia, which contributes to nitric acid formation, and mercury – often released alongside SO₂ – also need to be tracked ...

Likens first chanced upon acid rain in 1963 when he found that the rainwater in Hubbard Brook Experimental forest in the White Mountains of New Hampshire was 100 times more acidic than expected. More ...

In a new paper published in Science Advances, UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering postdoctoral researcher Aman Agrawal and his co-authors – including UChicago PME Dean Emeritus ...

One of the major unanswered questions about the origin of life is how droplets of RNA floating around the primordial soup turned into the membrane-protected packets of life we call cells.

THE evaluation of any acid–base disturbance ... establish the usual degree of compensation for disturbances of various magnitudes and present this information in the form of a diagram that ...

Acid rain, which is caused when pollutants such as nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide infiltrate precipitation, was largely mitigated by the passage of the U.S. Clean Air Act in 1990, and by the ...