In April 2016, a warm front approached southwest Greenland, causing air temperatures in the capital city of Nuuk and the surrounding area to increase rapidly.

Safer and more effective blood thinners could be on the way following a groundbreaking discovery by researchers at UBC and the University of Michigan, published today in Nature Communications.

“The world of tomorrow is cooking with gas!” This phrase was popularized by the gas industry as far back as the 1930s, promoting gas stoves as clean and reliable.

Researchers with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) are using NASA Earth observations of smoke and other air pollution to study the health impacts on veterans who were deployed to Afghanistan, Iraq, and other areas of Southwest Asia in the years after September 11, 2001. 

A new study has highlighted under-prepared regions across the world most at risk of the devastating effects of scorching temperatures.

MIT engineers have designed a two-component system that can be injected into the body and help form blood clots at the sites of internal injury.

The skin is an appealing route for drug delivery because it allows drugs to go directly to the site where they’re needed, which could be useful for wound healing, pain relief, or other medical and cosmetic applications. However, delivering drugs through the skin is difficult because the tough outer layer of the skin prevents most small molecules from passing through it.

The new study is the first to include a “heat index” to measure the recurring impacts of Indian heatwaves on the country’s population.

A previously underestimated risk lurks in the frozen soil of the Arctic.

Human activity is contributing to pollution that is affecting our health.