Air pollution affects all organs, including the liver and pancreas, increasing insulin resistance. It is also behind the ...

Communities in Washington hit hardest by climate change may soon get state funding to improve air quality. Washington’s Department of Ecology is launching a new grant program this week to fund local ...

Most people think air pollution only troubles the respiratory system, however, that is not entirely true. It also impacts ...

Have industrial emissions been counteracting the worst effects of global warming? Scientists are starting to think so. Burning coal, oil, and gas warms our planet by dispersing greenhouse gases, like ...

On the morning news, you see the weather forecast is for high heat, and there is an “excessive heat watch” for later in the week. You were hoping the weather would cool down, but yet another heat wave ...

Cooks love their gadgets, from countertop slow cookers to instant-read thermometers. Now, there’s increasing interest in magnetic induction cooktops—surfaces that cook much faster than conventional ...

Consider 300 lives. That’s how many deaths we can help prevent by requiring all restaurants that heavily use charbroilers in New York City to properly capture the emissions they create, according to ...

Even in a world committed to tackling climate change, premature deaths associated with air pollution could still rise in ...

The Interstate 5 Bridge stretches across a hazy Columbia River on Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2022, as seen from the Vancouver Waterfront. Smoke from the Nakia Creek Fire and a morning layer of fog pushed air ...