air quality

While they're traditionally viewed as concrete jungles rather than natural oases, cities are increasingly taking a leadership role when it comes to protecting biodiversity.

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.

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

Regional officials say air quality is expected to worsen in parts of the Vancouver area as smoky skies persisted Sunday due to wildfires in the province and the United States.

Environment Canada has issued heat warnings for a number of provinces, with temperatures expected to reach or surpass 30 C over the coming days.

Oregon health officials say the impacts of climate change, including more devastating wildfires, heat waves, drought and poor air quality, are fueling “climate anxiety” among young people.

“I’m not a scientist. I’m a mom who cares,” she said. “We have got to be better stewards of the environment and while reducing carbon emissions is necessary, injecting them into the basin is not the answer.”

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.

Spain issued extremely poor air quality ratings for Madrid and a large swath of the country on Tuesday, March 15, 2022, after a mass of hot air from the Sahara dumped dust after crossing the Mediterranean.

Decades of war, poverty, and fossil fuel extraction have devastated the country’s environment and its people.

Researchers say that thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars have been saved in the United States by recent reductions in emissions from vehicles.

Air pollution kills more people than malaria, HIV/AIDS, and TB combined but receives only one per cent of development aid.

Kate Southwell has been preparing her four-year-old son for his first day of school all summer.

It is imperative that educational institutions, including the University of Victoria, join schools across Canada that have committed to fossil fuel divestment, write University of Victoria students Hailey Chutter, Robin Pollard and Emma-Jane Burian.

Severe thunderstorms are forecast for several areas in British Columbia's southern Interior, adding to the fire danger in the province.