A new study from U of T Engineering’s Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering suggests that large-scale adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) could lead to significant population-level health benefits. 

With heart attacks, every second counts. A new blood test diagnoses them in minutes rather than hours and could be adapted as a tool for first responders and people at home.

The microbes that cycle nutrients in the ocean don’t do the work on their own – the viruses that infect them also influence the process.

When the outside temperatures rise, people tend to lose their cool. 

It's not just coastal cities bracing for sea-level rise or farmers battling erratic weather patterns—millions of people are being driven by changing climates to relocate, not across borders, but within their own countries.

The hospitalization last summer of Dr. Anthony Fauci, former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, with West Nile virus – and his account of it this week in the New York Times – have helped raise public awareness of the dangers of mosquito borne-illness, which can range from Zika and malaria to dengue and West Nile virus.

A study of more than 700 counties across multiple U.S. states found a link between childhood leukemia and levels of decaying radon gas, including those lower than the federal guideline for mitigation.

Plasticizers are chemical compounds that make materials more flexible.

Metastatic disease—when cancer spreads from the primary tumor to other parts of the body—is the cause of most cancer deaths. 

Smoke billowed from a fire in the forests of western Wyoming in early October 2024.