Diesel cars might get great gas mileage when compared to their gasoline counterparts, but now the World Health Organization has warned that diesel fumes are now known to prove lung cancer. In fact, ...

Diesel exhaust causes cancer, the World Health Organization's cancer agency declared Tuesday, a ruling it said could make exhaust as important a public health threat as secondhand smoke. Subscribe to ...

The Boston-based Clean Air Task Force released a report this week that said more than 20,000 Americans die prematurely each year from breathing toxic diesel fumes Phillips Industries’ new ...

For decades, schools have put their students on buses that belch diesel fumes, despite mounting evidence about the ill effects of the exhaust, especially on young, developing lungs. Now, as parents ...

Recurring exposure to soot particles from diesel exhaust reduces the immune system’s capacity to fend off infection more persistently than does a one-time exposure to an equivalent amount of particles ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Diesel engine exhaust fumes can cause cancer in humans and belong in the same potentially deadly category as asbestos, arsenic and mustard gas, World Health Organisation (WHO) ...

German automakers have confirmed that researchers they commissioned used monkeys to test the health effects of inhaling diesel fumes. Volkswagen, BMW and Daimler, the owner of Mercedes, financed a ...

Whether you love them or loathe them, we all depend on bugs. Insects help to pollinate three-quarters of the world's crop varieties, making them a treasured resource. German luxury carmaker Porsche on ...

Areli Sanchez’s daughter, Aida, used to be one of 20 million American kids who ride a diesel bus to school each day. Aida has asthma. When she was little, she complained about the smell and cloud of ...