(WGHP) – After a train with cars containing toxic chemicals derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, on Sunday, officials scheduled a controlled release to avoid an explosion. The controlled release created ...

Our AQI, or Air Quality Index, has improved since smoke bellowed from atop the RISE Doro apartment complex earlier today, however a stabilizing atmospheric environment could begin to trap some of that ...

The News 8 Storm Team has made today an Impact Day due to elevated levels of particulate matter which may be unhealthy for sensitive groups. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has ...

Michael d’Estries is a co-founder of the green celebrity blog Ecorazzi. He has been writing about culture, science, and sustainability since 2005. His work has appeared on Business Insider, and CNN.

Temperature inversions occur when air temperature increases with altitude, creating atmospheric stability that inhibits vertical mixing and deviates from the standard cooling lapse rate. Pilots should ...

Energy balance and lapse rate regimes qualitatively characterize the low, middle, and high latitudes of Earth’s modern climate. Currently we do not have a complete quantitative understanding of the ...

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, Vol. 52, No. 4 (April 2013), pp. 953-973 (21 pages) ABSTRACT The high-latitude winter atmospheric boundary layer of interior Alaska continually exhibits ...