PM2.5 air pollution from burning coal, oil and gas can penetrate deep into the lungs and trigger inflammation, heart attacks, ...

Would this make our lives so much more inconvenient? What would happen to our climate? Would it help us beat global warming?

The emissions might occur elsewhere, but they generate global harm that scientists can now quantify ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Getty Images Disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz could nudge global fossil fuel pollution slightly lower this year ...

(Gland, Switzerland, 16 March 2016) – The International Energy Agency (IEA) today announced that preliminary data show that CO 2 emissions from the use of fossil fuels have stalled for the second year ...

From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Steve Curwood with Dr. Vanessa Kerry at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Ever ...

Heat-trapping pollution contributes significantly to more destructive weather and extreme heat.

LONDON (Reuters) - Pollution from fossil fuels causes one in five premature deaths globally, suggesting the health impacts of burning coal, oil and natural gas may be far higher than previously ...

For each of the past several years, scientists, analysts and officials have been hoping that it would be the year when emissions from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas would stop going up. They ...

The authors write that governments reach for fuel subsidies, then find them difficult to remove because consumers are very ...

OSLO (Reuters) - Weather extremes and air pollution from burning fossil fuels cost the United States $240 billion a year in the past decade, according to a report on Wednesday that urged President ...

Relentless Rise in Carbon Pollution From Fossil Fuels Slightly Dampens Climate-Fighting Hopes BELEM, Brazil (AP) — For each of the past several years, scientists, analysts and officials have been ...