Despite concerns over global warming, scientists have discovered something that may have actually limited the impact of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere in recent years by reducing the amount of ...

What are the best ways to stop global dimming? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Answer by ...

I’ve heard of global warming, of course, but what on Earth is “global dimming?” Max S. Seattle, Wash. Global dimming is a less well-known but real phenomenon resulting from atmospheric pollution. The ...

Ultra-fine, human-made particles in the atmosphere are changing the amount of sunlight that reaches the ground, according to a new study. From the 1950s through the 1980s, researchers saw steady ...

Q: I’ve heard of global warming, of course, but what on Earth is global dimming? A: Global dimming is a less well-known but real phenomenon resulting from atmospheric pollution. The burning of fossil ...

Writing at the Celsias blog, Craig Mackintosh notes that decades of global dimming -- the reflection of the sun's light back into space due to pollutants in earth's atmosphere -- may have been ...

Ask students to explain what they know about global warming and global dimming. Review these climate phenomena with students, including how the phenomena are believed to occur and what their effects ...

From the abstract of the lead paper by Martin Wild: Recent evidence suggests that solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface has not been constant over time but has undergone substantial variations ...

A new NASA study has found that an important counter-balance to the warming of our planet by greenhouse gases – sunlight blocked by dust, pollution and other aerosol particles – appears to have lost ...

relates how the first signs of global dimming came in the 1980s when one scientist—who measured sunlight amounts over Israel in the 1950s—found a 22 percent drop in sunlight 20 years later. reports ...