mosquitoes

In the emergency order, the commonwealth’s department of health said it had recorded 549 cases of the disease this year so far, a 140 per cent increase over the same period a year ago.

For decades, preventing dengue fever in Honduras has meant teaching people to fear mosquitoes and avoid their bites. Now, Hondurans are being educated about a potentially more effective way to control the disease — and it goes against everything they’ve learned.

Experts say a tangled web of factors is driving global spikes in dengue, but one culprit stands out — climate change.

Physicians and medical schools around the world are tailoring their approach to public health as climate-related illnesses rise.

Eighteen-year-old Hunter Sousa from Maine celebrated his high school graduation by hopping in a truck and heading to Nova Scotia to fight the biggest forest fire in the province's history.

El Niño could push global temperatures past the 1.5 C tipping point, the World Meteorological Organization warns.

A study suggests that rather than helping you go incognito, soapy fragrances could make you a more attractive target, with mosquitoes favouring the scent of volunteers who washed with three out of four popular soap brands tested.

Seven ways in which our destruction of the natural world has led to deadly outcomes.

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

The RCMP have been searching a remote area in northern Manitoba for more than a week trying to find murder suspects Bryer Schmegelsky and Kam McLeod. A burned-out vehicle the fugitives were driving was found near the town of Gillam, Man., 1,000 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg.

Canadian scientists are racing to test a remedy that they hope will save bats from a deadly fungus that has already killed millions of the winged mammals across the continent.

If you're planning to enjoy the great outdoors this summer, there are good reasons to stock up on bug spray.