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Dirty air is already known to increase hospital treatment for severe asthma attacks and other respiratory problems. But new research is the first using clinical data to show increased illness among the much bigger number of people who seek treatment from their doctor.

In every country across the world, women are disproportionately affected by disasters — and not just by a little, write Victoria Ker, Erica Steele, Stephen Patenaude and Brayden Pelham.

Many things can spell the last straw for an exhausted farmer — a crop that doesn’t work out, a few too many days working in a row. For Kristen Penhall, it was a comment about the number of carrots in one of her vegetable boxes.

Public health research has shown that climate change is amplifying the health disparities that poorer people already face as a result of social conditions, like substandard housing or jobs with poor working conditions.

Manvi Bhalla of Shake Up The Establishment is helping to change Canada’s climate conversation, says Patricia Lane.

Exposure to air pollution significantly increases the risk of infertility, according to the first study to examine the danger to the general population.

The new research out of Harvard will likely amplify calls to rapidly transition off of oil, gas and coal for reasons beyond curbing climate change.

He has worked in food system development for eight years and is now the provincial manager of Can You Dig It at the Public Health Association of BC.

A new COVID-19 testing clinic in Brampton offers health services and printed material in many languages to better spread the word about safety and local public health services among the city's South Asian community.

Rachelle Wintzen had just reopened her boutique yoga studio after dropping $150,000 on a major renovation when it was forced to close again last March. She has been accumulating more debt and hustling to hang on ever since.

Large U.K. study found small increases associated with more cases of age-related macular degeneration.

Financial incentives to recycle spent electric vehicle batteries are eroding. That could spell environmental disaster, writes Perry Gottesfeld.

Despite the extremely low risks that approved COVID-19 vaccines pose to health compared to COVID-19 itself, these concerns need to be treated as valid by health experts and vaccine decision-makers because they are justified, writes PhD candidate Cathy Slavik. 

OTTAWA — Canada’s biggest province declared a new state of emergency Tuesday and is invoking a stay−at−home order as COVID−19 threatens to overwhelm Ontario hospitals.