When the nation’s leading experts in weather, water, and climate gather in Baltimore later this month for the annual conference of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), they will get a close-up view of the region’s fragile environment.

Today, Nature Communications published a study entitled "First close insight into global daily gapless 1-km PM2.5 pollution, variability, and health impact" by Jing Wei (Assistant Research Scientist) and Zhanqing Li (Distinguished University Professor) of the University of Maryland, USA and collaborators from the US and foreign institutes.

More than 600 students are graduating from CMNS with undergraduate, graduate or professional studies degrees.

UMD researchers analyzed changes in the mortality burden attributed to wildfire pollution over the last two decades.

Published last month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the research shows that the 12-hour undersea eruption led to unprecedented losses of up to 7% of the ozone layer over large areas of the Southern Hemisphere.

Atmospheric methane—a potent greenhouse gas—has surged since 2007. Figuring out where it’s coming from could help mitigate climate change.

Atmospheric and oceanic science Ph.D. student Samantha Halstead Santez left a six-year museum career to study sea ice. Now, she’s at NASA.

184 students graduated from the college in August 2023.