Winter smog blankets Pakistan's capital, Islamabad. The South Asian country regularly ranks among the world's most polluted ...

Houston is known as a smog factory, but wind-borne pollution from Mexico and other countries is partly to blame for our bad air. That means oil refiners, chemical makers and other heavy industries are ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Residents of Baghdad are angry about thick smog that has blanketed the Iraqi capital and say the ...

Volvo is building a new factory in China to produce the Polestar 1 hybrid electric car that's expected to be Volvo's answer to Tesla, a factory the company promises will be "the most environmentally ...

A friend of mine is the proud owner of a 2002 Honda. He’s piled almost 130,000 miles on the vehicle since buying it 13 years ago. It’s far beyond any factory warranty or even an extended warranty. So ...

It happens every winter in India’s sprawling capital: The cold air arrives, trapping the dust and other pollutants emitted by its 20 million residents. The result? A filthy, choking haze that engulfs ...

China’s official factory gauge maintained momentum, signaling campaigns to reduce both pollution and debt risk haven’t curbed output. Steadiness in manufacturing comes even amid intensifying efforts ...

Houston, for a time, held the unwanted title of the nation's capital of bad air. These days, however, this land of unchecked growth, traffic-choked freeways and prolific smokestacks isn't even the ...

Houston has a long way to go before its air is safe to breathe, despite a decades-long effort to scrub the skies of lung-damaging smog, the latest science suggests. The Environmental Protection Agency ...

Houston just can't kick its smog habit. A bout of unusually hot, stagnant weather has pushed the eight-county region above federal limits for ozone, or smog, for the first time in three years.