Since 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency has required thousands of industrial facilities in the United States to ...

The recent Hague talks on global warming focused attention on the so-called greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. But these gases are only a part of the story. Mankind generates a wide variety of ...

Scientists at the University of Manchester are calling for the creation of a global network of air monitoring stations to ...

Carbon monoxide emissions from industrial production have serious consequences for human health and are a strong indicator of overall air pollution levels. Many countries aim to reduce their emissions ...

A recent World Meteorological Organization (WMO) report pinpointed Canada's role in contributing to poor air quality levels ...

The Trump administration will remove ocean and air pollution monitoring instruments from the upcoming fleet of weather satellites, and cut the number of satellites, as well.

Climate change is driving more frequent and more intense wildfires around the world, including in the United States. These ...

As the American Southwest grapples with unnaturally sky-high temperatures wrought by a destructive "heat dome," scientists say carbon dioxide — a polluting greenhouse gas released by fossil fuels, ...

A new study on ice cores from Alaska and Greenland found that air pollution from the burning of fossil fuels reaches the remote Arctic in amounts large enough to alter its fundamental atmospheric ...

You're stuck in traffic on a summer afternoon, checking the weather app on your phone as dark storm clouds roll in. You might think about power outages or possible flooding, but you probably don't ...

On Thursday at 2:55 p.m. an air quality alert was reported by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality in effect until ...