Topic: Carbon Monoxide

Electric heater: Five safety tips for when you turn it on

Electric heater: a cost-effective but dangerous option? Space heaters are linked to five times more fire-related fatalities in the home than chimneys or fireplaces are.

As host of Cancún climate talks, Mexico shows off its greener capital city

Mexico, host of the Cancún climate talks that began Monday, enforced tougher environmental standards in its notoriously dirty capital and vastly improved air quality.

Flagstaff carbon monoxide poisoning sickens 25

A building leaking carbon monoxide in Flagstaff, Arizona, sickened more than two dozen, Tuesday.

How Titan might be making DNA building blocks

Saturn's moon Titan has many of the components for life – but no liquid water. A new study shows how the moon's atmosphere might be producing the molecules that make up DNA anyway.

Comet struck Neptune 200 years ago, researchers find

A comet struck the planet Neptune some 200 years ago, leaving a blotch of carbon monoxide in the upper atmosphere.

Howling poisonous superstorm observed on distant planet

Winds of carbon monoxide howl across a gas giant at thousands of miles per hour, some 150 light-years from Earth. For the first time astronomers have determined wind speeds on a planet outside our solar system.

Strange chemical, hydrogen fluoride, found common in our galaxy

Scientists have noted the presence of hydrogen fluoride throughout the Milky Way

Boston and the National Bureau of Economic Research

Boston recently hosted the National Bureau of Economic Research environmental economics meetings.

Microscopic objects may lead to large pollution solution

Column: These itty-bitty microbes are the most sophisticated chemists on Earth.

Cleaning up an engine’s act

New lawn mowers to cut smog, cost more

The good and the bad of the new EPA rules for lawn mowers.

Eleven days to clean air? Olympic host says yes.

Chinese officials say recent antipollution rules are helping. Critics question their data.