air pollution

“Really inefficient engine technology is, pound for pound, more polluting than cars and trucks.”

As part of an environmental group’s settlement with Volkswagen over air pollution, the federal government is putting some of the money into projects that promote active transportation in Quebec. 

Places that experienced more pollution from wildfires and farming had higher rates of dementia, the University of Michigan research found. Climate change is boosting those odds.

With deadly extreme weather hitting all over the globe, rising temperatures peaking during the hottest summer on record and carbon pollution levels that keep climbing, Britain’s Prince William and wealthy entrepreneurs Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg promised a warming world a degree of hope.

The first complete "scientific health check" shows most global systems are beyond the stable range in which modern civilization emerged.

A growing body of international research suggests pollution from wildfire smoke can produce cognitive deficits, post-traumatic stress and may even increase the risk of dementia, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.

Thousands of Canadians die prematurely each year due to air pollution. These climate organizations are petitioning Canada's environment watchdog to find out what Ottawa is doing about it.

With increased financial support, all new school bus purchases could be electric by 2040, or more ambitiously, 2035.

Strict new automobile pollution limits proposed in the U.S. are good news for the climate and Canada’s economy, say several energy think-tanks.

Startups rush to gain foothold in a burgeoning industry as New York and California move to legalize human composting.

Far more tiny particles now come from tires than are emitted from exhausts but new tire designs may help.

The co-author of a recent study says its results have implications for anyone who has to think hard in polluted areas.

For more than a decade, a proposal to build a cement plant has hung over one rural Ontario village like a black cloud.

Scientists need to learn more about climate change’s negative impacts on the nervous system in order to mitigate it.

Schools across Sri Lanka were closed on Friday, December 9, 2022, as health and environment officials said the air quality in most parts of the island nation was unhealthy partly due to extreme weather conditions.