First close insight into global daily gapless 1-km PM2.5 pollution, variability, and health impact

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.

Air Quality Deterioration from Western Wildfires Outpaces Human-Driven Improvement, Threatens Human Health

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

Study Shows Massive Eruption Thinned Earth’s Protective Ozone Layer

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.

UMD Scientists ‘Fingerprint’ Methane to Track a Climate Change Culprit

Methane is the second-most abundant greenhouse gas in Earth’s atmosphere, and its emissions have been rapidly—and mysteriously—rising since 2007. Though pervasive, the origin of the colorless compound is tricky to trace, complicating efforts to curb gases that trap heat in the atmosphere and warm the planet.

Weathering Life’s Changes

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.

Philip Merrill Presidential Scholars Program Honors Top Students and Their Mentors

AOSC's Outstanding graduating senior, Maria Nikolaitchik, and her faculty mentor, Tim Canty are among those honored as 2023-24 Philip Merrill Presidential Scholars

First Maryland Mesonet Tower Installed

University of Maryland and state government officials joined Monday to hoist a 30-foot tower into place in a farm field near Ellicott City, Md., activating the first piece of a statewide system that will speed early warnings about the kind of dangerous weather that twice in recent years took lives and destroyed buildings in the city’s historic downtown.

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