air pollution

Doctors warn exposure to omnipresent, yet poorly understood, chemicals such as microplastics could play a role in dementia.

The Environmental Protection Agency said it has evidence that Black residents in an industrial section of Louisiana face an increased risk of cancer from a nearby chemical plant and that state officials have allowed air pollution to remain high and downplayed its threat.

California activists paved the way for defining climate change as an air pollution problem. Now it's federal law.

Insects could give a meaty taste to food — and help the environment — scientists find.

It is time to shift our lens and bring into focus that our society’s plastic addiction has become a matter of life and death.

After decades of inaction in the face of escalating natural disasters and sustained global warming, Congress hopes to make clean energy so cheap in all aspects of life that it’s nearly irresistible. The House is poised to pass a transformative bill on Friday, August 12, 2022, that would provide the most spending to fight climate change by any one nation ever in a single push.

Aleeza Jahan wants to help reduce India’s chronic air pollution, and the 16-year-old high school student from Vaughan is tapping into a global network of other engaged teens to try to make it happen.

An extensive study of thousands of COVID-19 patients in Ontario hospitals found links between the severity of their infections and the levels of common air pollutants they experience.

As a lawyer, 32-year-old Christie McLeod believes her profession has an ethical obligation to advise clients to advance climate justice. 

The legal right to a healthy environment and environmental justice is fundamental as we work towards a future of improved environmental and human health.

Alisdair McLean is not looking for directions. The map marks off a three-kilometre radius around his Ottawa home. If his destination is in that circle, he leaves his car in the driveway and walks. 

Strong measures by Europe could quickly deprive Russia of oil and gas income worth billions, experts say.

A University of Calgary study says there may be a link between the density of certain oil and gas operations and increased health risks for nearby pregnant women and their babies.

The U.N. health agency says nearly everybody in the world breathes air that doesn’t meet its standards for air quality, calling for more action to reduce fossil-fuel use, which generates pollutants that cause respiratory and blood-flow problems and lead to millions of preventable deaths each year.

Revised government data estimates a lower proportion of pollution comes from wood stoves but they remain a "major contributor."