Environmental Science
News Releases
Chongai Kuang Honored for Aerosol Research
Thursday, November 13, 2025
Brookhaven's Top 10 Discoveries of 2024
Thursday, December 19, 2024
Atmospheric Observatory Opens for Operation in Bankhead National Forest
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
DOE Announces $10 Million to Support Climate Resilience Centers Across America
Friday, August 16, 2024
High-resolution Lidar Sees Birth Zone of Cloud Droplets
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Scientists Detail Research to Assess the Viability and Risks of Marine Cloud Brightening
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Blowing Snow Contributes to Arctic Warming
Tuesday, September 5, 2023
DOE Announces $70 Million in Research Training Opportunities for Students and Faculty from Historically Underrepresented Institutions
Monday, August 21, 2023
TSU Cohosts International TRACER/ACPC Meeting Exploring Innovations in Climate Science
Monday, May 15, 2023
Brookhaven Lab's Alistair Rogers Named 2022 AAAS Fellow
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
ASU Leads $25M Project to Develop Southwest Urban Integrated Field Laboratory
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
DOE Funds Pilot Study Focused on Biosecurity for Bioenergy Crops
Thursday, October 6, 2022
Brookhaven Scientist Stephen Schwartz Wins 2022 Haagen-Smit Clean Air Award
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
EVENT: Earth Day at the Jones Beach Energy & Nature Center
Friday, April 8, 2022
Scientists Recommend System of Checkpoints to Help Guide Climate Engineering Research
Thursday, January 20, 2022
Live Celebration, Q&A: Brookhaven Lab's 75th Anniversary
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
Top-10 Areas of Amazing Science at Brookhaven Lab in 2021
Wednesday, December 29, 2021
Clouds, Aerosols, and Air Quality in the Coastal Urban Environment
Wednesday, December 1, 2021
Does Pollution Make Thunderstorms More Severe?
Monday, September 27, 2021
Explosive Origins of 'Secondary' Ice—and Snow
Monday, March 22, 2021
Tiny Particles that Seed Clouds Can Form from Trace Gases Over Open Sea
Friday, January 22, 2021
Pavlos Kollias Receives AGU Atmospheric Sciences Ascent Award
Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Stephen Schwartz Receives International Aerosol Fellow Award
Wednesday, November 4, 2020
Like Snowflakes, Soot Particles Are Unique—Affecting Climate Modeling
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Tiny Airborne Particles from Wildfires have Climate Change Implications
Friday, September 13, 2019
Illuminating Water Filtration
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
New Technique Reveals Details of Forest Fire Recovery
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Tiny Particles Have Outsize Impact on Storm Clouds, Precipitation
Thursday, January 25, 2018
Scientists Launch Flights to Gather Detailed Data on Aerosols and Clouds
Monday, May 8, 2017
Brookhaven Lab's Robert McGraw Receives AS&T's Outstanding Publication Award from the American Association for Aerosol Research
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Alice Cialella Named Chair of Brookhaven Lab's Environmental and Climate Sciences Department
Monday, November 7, 2016
Amazon Study Reveals that Rainstorms Transport Atmospheric Particles Essential for Cloud Formation
Monday, October 24, 2016
Synchronized Leaf Aging in the Amazon Responsible for Seasonal Increases in Photosynthesis
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Robert Harrison Leads New Center to Consolidate and Showcase Brookhaven Lab's Computing Capabilities
Monday, July 27, 2015
Brookhaven Lab's Asian Pacific American Association Offers Dr. Mow Shiah Lin Scholarship
Thursday, April 2, 2015
Major New Research Project to Study How Tropical Forests Worldwide Respond to Climate Change
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Plants Use Water Wisely — Mostly
Monday, March 2, 2015
Brookhaven Lab's Asian Pacific American Association Offers Dr. Mow Shiah Lin Scholarship
Monday, March 17, 2014
Atmospheric Scientist Recognized for Outstanding Contributions to Aerosol Science
Monday, October 28, 2013
Department of Energy Lab Field Study Will Sample Aerosols from Biomass Burning
Monday, July 8, 2013
Martin Schoonen Named Chair of Environmental Sciences at Brookhaven Lab
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
New York City Police Department and Brookhaven Lab to Conduct Airflow Study In New York City Streets and Subways This Summer
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Brookhaven Lab's Asian Pacific American Association Offers Dr. Mow Shiah Lin Scholarship
Monday, March 18, 2013
Solar Energy to get Boost from Cutting-edge Forecasts
Friday, February 22, 2013
Yearlong MAGIC Climate Study Launches
Monday, October 1, 2012
Brookhaven Lab's Asian Pacific American Association Offers Dr. Mow Shiah Lin Scholarship
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Rising Air Pollution Worsens Drought, Flooding UMD-Led Study Shows
Sunday, November 13, 2011
U.S. Department of Energy Kicks Off Scientific Collaboration with India
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Brookhaven Lab's Asian Pacific American Association Offers Dr. Mow Shiah Lin Scholarship
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Brookhaven Storm Experts Head to Oklahoma
Monday, April 18, 2011
Scientists Begin 5-month Study of Cloud Life Cycles
Thursday, December 9, 2010
New Aerosol-Observing Instruments Ready to Deploy
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Reinhold Mann Named Brookhaven Lab's Associate Laboratory Director for Environment and Life Sciences
Friday, June 18, 2010
Peter Daum Named Chair of Brookhaven Lab's Environmental Sciences Department
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Why Hasn't Earth Warmed as Much as Expected?
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Brookhaven Lab Patents New Method for Mercury Remediation
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Trapped! Scientists Immobilize Bacteria in Fibrous Hydrogel
Monday, August 3, 2009
CT Scan To Help Scientists Diagnose Role of Clouds in Climate
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Features
New Study Improves Solar Forecasting by Accounting for Variations in Cloud Types
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
ARM Gears up for Desert Deployment in Arizona
Thursday, September 19, 2024
Planning for Impacts of Floods and Clouds on Power
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Instrumental: Brookhaven's Alabama-Bound Spectrometer
Thursday, August 22, 2024
Students Sample Energy Opportunities at Brookhaven Lab and Beyond
Thursday, August 8, 2024
Weather Trucks Search for Answers About Extreme Heat in Tucson's 'Data Deserts'
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
Empowering Urban Communities with Climate Data
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
Westhampton Beach Student's Seaweed Fertilizer Project 'SPARKs' Success
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Daniel Vrinceanu: Champion of Science for the Underrepresented
Friday, May 31, 2024
Roadmap to Close the Carbon Cycle
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
First Calibration Training at CAMS
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Giangrande Replaces Vogelmann as Co-lead of ARM Modeling Activity
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Maria Zawadowicz: Offering Expertise In Aerosol Measurement
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
Driving Innovation and Discovery: DOE's Office of Science 2023 Year in Review
Thursday, December 21, 2023
Team Engineers Nanoparticles Using Ion Irradiation to Advance Clean Energy and Fuel Conversion
Thursday, December 21, 2023
Long Island Teachers Learn Environmental and Climate Research Skills at Brookhaven Lab
Monday, November 20, 2023
DOE to Deploy Advanced Observatory to Alabama
Friday, November 17, 2023
Can they Calibrate it? Yes, they CAMS
Monday, November 6, 2023
Penn State Professor to Lead DOE Climate Study in Baltimore Area
Friday, September 1, 2023
Science Workshop Outlines a TRACER Future
Thursday, June 29, 2023
PubSci Explores the Burning Questions of How Wildfires Connect to Climate
Tuesday, May 23, 2023
PubSci Science Café and Conversation: Burning Questions—Do Wildfires Fuel Climate Change?
Friday, April 21, 2023
National Laboratories Partner With Minority-Serving Institutions to Prepare Students for the New Energy Workforce
Thursday, April 6, 2023
Scientists Map Changes in Soot Particles Emitted from Wildfires
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Ogo Enekwizu Brings Soot-seeded Clouds into the Laboratory
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
ARM Out on the Open Ocean
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
DOE Announces $32 Million in Research Opportunities for Underrepresented Groups
Monday, January 23, 2023
A Study of Stormy Houston Switches Gears
Thursday, November 17, 2022
TRACER Talk: Student Interns Contribute to Early Research Efforts
Tuesday, September 6, 2022
Chongai Kuang: Up, Up, and Away in Search of Aerosol Data
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
Mapping Urban Heat From the Ground Up
Tuesday, July 19, 2022
TRACER Intensive Period Kicks Off with a Bang, then a Fizzle, and Lots of Heat
Thursday, June 23, 2022
City of Storms Gets an Intensive Look
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
ARM Marks 30 Years of Collecting Atmospheric Data
Monday, May 16, 2022
526th Brookhaven Lecture: Smoke, Fire, and Climate Change
Monday, April 18, 2022
Classifying Weather to Tease Out How Aerosols Influence Storms
Monday, March 21, 2022
Experts Swarm Houston to Track Thunderstorms
Thursday, March 3, 2022
521st Brookhaven Lecture: Plants, Climate Change, Photosynthesis
Friday, November 12, 2021
Drone Flights Give Scientists Better Data on Vegetation in the Arctic Tundra
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Mobile Observatory Surveys Manhattan Atmosphere
Friday, September 24, 2021
Steady Progress in the Battle Against COVID-19
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
ARM Announces 2020 Service Award Recipients
Monday, July 20, 2020
Stephen Springston: Master of Puzzles and Problems
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Meet the Engineers Whose Programming Helps Enhance Climate Research
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Brookhaven Lab to Lead AMF3 Move to Southeastern United States
Monday, February 24, 2020
Tackling Food Insecurity with Remote Sensing
Thursday, November 14, 2019
Allison McComiskey: An Observer of the Natural World
Monday, October 21, 2019
Aerosol Hunter
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Scientists Prepare Ship for Mission Locked in Arctic Ice
Friday, September 20, 2019
Of Leaves and Light
Friday, August 23, 2019
Predicting Urban and Coastal Microclimates
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
New Campaign Will Track Deep Convective Clouds Over Houston
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Solar Base Station Gets Upgrade
Friday, December 7, 2018
Despite Devastation, They—and Their Science—Go On
Monday, March 26, 2018
Seasonal Patterns in the Amazon Explained
Thursday, February 22, 2018
Final Check as Instruments Set Sail to Track Aerosols Over Southern Ocean
Thursday, December 7, 2017
Brookhaven's Computational Science Laboratory Accelerates Radar Simulator Code for Cloud Research
Friday, September 15, 2017
With ARM Instruments Watching, an Extensive Summer Melt in West Antarctica
Thursday, June 15, 2017
At Brookhaven, 'Wide-Eyed' Visitor Takes in American Science and Culture
Thursday, April 13, 2017
Brookhaven Lab's Asian Pacific American Association Offers Mow Shiah Lin Scholarship
Monday, April 10, 2017
514th Brookhaven Lecture on Wednesday, 4/20: 'What Will Earth Be Like in 50 Years?'
Thursday, April 14, 2016
What are Aerosols?
Thursday, March 31, 2016
Portable Laboratory Will Gather Critical Arctic Climate Data
Monday, February 29, 2016
AWARE Project Launched to Gain New Insights on Climate of Antarctica
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Brookhaven Lab Climate Scientists Embark on New Efforts to Study Ocean Clouds, Mountain Storms
Thursday, December 3, 2015
Fostering the Next Generation of Citizen Scientists
Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Brookhaven Lab Construction Technology Poised for Commercialization
Friday, April 24, 2015
Bacteria Tracked Feeding Nitrogen to Nutrient-Starved Plants
Friday, April 10, 2015
Students Conduct Hands-On Exploration of Long Island's River Ecosystems
Friday, October 17, 2014
Vast Data Collections for Complex Climate Systems: Meet Alice Cialella
Friday, June 13, 2014
BNL's Jian Wang Will Help Understand Rainforest Atmosphere Dynamics
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
492nd Brookhaven Lecture on Wednesday, 2/19: What Goes Up Must Come Down: The Lifecycle of Convective Clouds
Friday, February 14, 2014
Lab Workshop on Predicting Weather Impacts on Utilities
Monday, February 10, 2014
BNLer Alistair Rogers' Third Intel Semifinalist Named Last Week
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Smoke Signals: Tracking the Rapid Changes of Wildfire Aerosols
Monday, November 4, 2013
MAGIC Sea Voyage Ends, Journey to Decode Data Begins
Thursday, October 31, 2013
'A Day in the Life of the Carmans River'
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Behind the Scenes at the Subway-Surface Air Flow Exchange (S-SAFE) Project
Friday, September 13, 2013
From Rising in the Dark to Enduring the Heat, Student Interns Joined In
Friday, September 13, 2013
Scientists Set Off for Alaska to Study Climate Change
Thursday, July 11, 2013
NYPD Airflow Study Underway
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
'Why Has Earth NOT Warmed as Much as Expected? And Why Is This So Important?'
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Peter Daum Named Senior Scientist Emeritus
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Mobile Aerosol Observing Units Deployed at Cape Cod
Thursday, March 7, 2013
A Homecoming Party at the Los Angeles Shipping Dock
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Climate Research Captures Imagination, Inspires A Career
Friday, December 28, 2012
Keeping Tabs on Chemicals in the Air
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Long Island Natural History Conference Draws 150 Attendees
Friday, December 7, 2012
Brookhaven Lab’s Chongai Kuang Wins Award for Research on Atmospheric Particles
Friday, November 9, 2012
Internal Atomic Structure Reveals Key to Pollution-Fighting Bacteria
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
‘A Really Good Hammer: Quantification of Mass Transfer Using Perfluorocarbon Tracers’
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
BNL Hosts Two Semifinalists in 2012 Intel Science Contest
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
MAGIC “Cruise” Aboard Spirit Getting Ready to Set Sail
Thursday, December 8, 2011
The Long Island Solar Farm at Brookhaven Lab is Generating Electricity
Monday, November 14, 2011
The Softer Side of X-rays — Researchers Use NSLS to Probe Cadmium-Contaminated Soil
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
North, South, East, West — Students Study What Rides the Wind over Long Island
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Not Much Sun – But Plenty of Solar Panels
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Storm Scientists Participate in Science Café
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
469th Brookhaven Lecture Featuring Andy Vogelmann
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
An Elegant Cycle: Molybdenum’s Availability in Soil Deciphered
Friday, November 19, 2010
Reinhold Mann Named Brookhaven Lab's Associate Laboratory Director for Environment and Life Sciences
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Aerosol, Cloud, and Climate: From Observation to Model
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Linking Lava and ‘Rust’ to the Earth’s Evolution
Monday, January 11, 2010
BNL-Led Effort Pursues Innovative Ways To Improve Climate Modeling
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Brookhaven Scientist Leads Five-Month Study of Clouds To Improve Climate Models
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Problems in the Uranium Bioremediation Avenue
Thursday, April 9, 2009
New York Blue Supercomputer Aids In Global Climate Research
Friday, February 6, 2009
Videos
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Where There's Smoke, There's Fire (and Climate Change)
April 20, 2022
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75th Anniversary Celebration, Q&A
January 27, 2022
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75th Anniversary Celebration, Q&A
January 27, 2022
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Plants & Climate Change: Improving Understanding and Model Representation of Photosynthesis in Climate Models
November 17, 2021
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Inspiring Students to Pursue Graduate Studies: A Collaboration Between Brookhaven National Lab and Southern University at New Orleans (SUNO)
August 9, 2018
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What Will Earth Be Like in 50 Years?
April 20, 2016
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2015 Open Space Stewardship Program Keynote Speech
June 4, 2015
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What Are Climate Models Good For?
April 28, 2015
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What Goes Up Must Come Down: The Lifecycle of Convective Clouds
February 19, 2014
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'Why Has Earth NOT Warmed as Much as Expected? And Why Is This So Important?'
May 15, 2013
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L.I. Natural History Conference: Long Island’s River Otters
November 16, 2012
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L.I. Natural History Conference: 30 Years of Marine Mammals and Sea Turtles Around Long Island
November 16, 2012
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L.I. Natural History Conference: Strange Times for Jamaica Bay Terrapins
November 16, 2012
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L.I. Natural History Conference: Jamaica Bay: An Urban National Park
November 16, 2012
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L.I. Natural History Conference: Lifestyles of East Coast Butterflies
November 16, 2012
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L.I. Natural History Conference: The Long Island Alewife
November 16, 2012
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L.I. Natural History Conference: Changes to Our Flora and Fauna
November 16, 2012
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L.I. Natural History Conference: Natural History of Brookhaven National Laboratory
November 16, 2012
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L.I. Natural History Conference: Biodiversity & Ecological Potential of Plum Island
November 16, 2012
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L.I. Natural History Conference: Horseshoe Crab Monitoring
November 16, 2012
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L.I. Natural History Conference: Bird Migration on Long Island
November 16, 2012
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L.I. Natural History Conference: Atlantic White Cedar
November 16, 2012
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L.I. Natural History Conference: A Frog’s Tale
November 16, 2012
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L.I. Natural History Conference: Open Discussion
November 16, 2012
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Quantification of Mass Transfer Using Perfluorocarbon Tracers
February 15, 2012
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Atmospheric Research at BNL
October 6, 2008
