When Kazakhstan launched Central Asia’s first large-scale cloud-seeding program on May 17, it called it a high-tech response to drought, water scarcity, and accelerating desertification. Run in the ...

Each decade seems to have its signature environmental crisis that dominates headlines. Over time those issues seemingly disappear, leaving us to idly wonder from time to time if problems like the ...

Black acid rain, which can form after burning large amounts of crude oil, is a toxic mixture of fuel byproducts and atmospheric condensation. This form of precipitation occurs when combustion-derived ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on Iranian oil facilities unleashed toxic black rain, causing residents in Tehran to ...

With bombs in Iran and deregulation at home, Trump seems determined to resurrect one of the most apocalyptic images of the 1980s. The Reagan administration, whose environmental policy was helmed by ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Reports are emerging of black rain falling over parts of Iran in the hours ...

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Reports are emerging of black rain falling over parts of Iran in the hours after US-Israeli airstrikes on oil depots on the weekend, with some outlets describing it as “acid rain”. As an atmospheric ...

The skies in northern Iran were dark with smoke on 8 March as the US and Israeli bombing campaign against the country continued, and black rain even fell on the capital Tehran. The catastrophic scenes ...

Black clouds gathered over Tehran and rain saturated with what appeared to be oil fell on the city after Israeli air strikes hit oil refineries and infrastructure overnight—one day before Iran’s ...

This story was originally published by Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Israel’s bombing of Iran’s oil infrastructure will have major long-term environmental ...

Chief Meteorologist Michael Stevens demonstrated a STEM experiment in Traverse City to show how rain forms using a mason jar and ice cubes. The demonstration illustrates the atmospheric processes of ...