Health

Throughout May, more than 140 wildfires have burned across Alberta and British Columbia. On Sunday, the thick, ashy haze billowing from these infernos drifted across the U.S. border, casting a blanket of smoke over Minnesota and Wisconsin, which eventually made its way to Iowa and other parts of the Midwest earlier Tuesday morning.  Counties throughout […]

Could the same be happening to us?

In one Chicago suburb, people have been waiting for relief for years.

Fast fashion is one of the world’s most polluting industries. Its global workforce is paying the price.

Acidifying oceans are leading to sensory loss in fish. Scientists fear people might be next.

California emits more sulfuryl fluoride, a potent greenhouse gas and toxic pesticide, than the rest of the lower 48 states combined, a new study concludes.  The study, published Wednesday in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, comes after California—a state that touts its leadership role in addressing climate change—denied a recent request to include the […]

MOODY, Ala.—When Danielle Cusimano brought her newborn baby, Saylor, home from the hospital in December 2022, it was hard to keep the smoke out. The Cusimano family lived a few miles from the site of the Moody landfill just northeast of Birmingham where a month earlier, in November 2022, a fire had sparked to the […]

Warmer temperatures are driving outbreaks of dengue worldwide, with millions of cases already reported in 2024.

A recent report also projects $12.5 trillion in economic losses and $1.1 trillion in healthcare costs by midcentury.

He noticed the light-headedness first. Then there was stifling heat, which made everything seem to be moving in slow motion. And by the time Oscar Rodriguez, a bricklayer from Cypress, Texas, was able to find shelter under an air conditioner during a triple-digit degree day last summer, he realized that he may have just escaped […]