A crackdown on sulfur in ship fuel is linked to a steep drop in thunderclouds in the Indian Ocean and South China Sea.

It showed that the impacts are much more visible in the Southern Hemisphere, where there is more ocean and less human activity, and therefore the presence of sulfur from the burning of fossil ...

If you look at a map of lightning near the Port of Singapore, you'll notice an odd streak of intense lightning activity right ...

Astronomers have identified sulfur as a potentially crucial indicator in narrowing the search for life on other planets. While sulfur itself is not necessarily an indication of habitability ...

For decades, ship emissions steadily rose as increasing global trade drove higher ship traffic. Then, in 2020, new ...

this provides the perfect conditions and materials (namely sulfur-rich fluids) to promote the formation of gold-bearing magma. “On all of the continents around the Pacific Ocean, from New ...

hides a liquid ocean that may hold all the ingredients needed for life. Three key ingredients are needed for life as we know it: essential elements like carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur; an energy ...

Then, in 2020, new international regulations cut ships’ sulfur emissions by 77%. Our newly published research shows how lightning over shipping lanes dropped by half almost overnight after the ...