Do you know anyone who likes the sound of leaf blowers? In our neighborhood, their whine can be heard 7 AM to 4 PM six days a week from March ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. For more than 100 million years, trees have dropped their leaves every fall, creating a protective layer of ...

Leaf blowers may clear debris quickly, but their extreme noise and emissions can harm hearing, air quality, and the ...

The push to ban gas-powered leaf blowers has gained an unlikely figurehead: Cate Blanchett, the Australian actress. “Leaf blowers need to be eradicated from the face of the Earth,” she said in an ...

You rush over to the laptop in your home office, drop into your seat, and tap into a Teams or Zoom meeting. Inevitably, that's the cue for the neighbor's landscaping crew to show up. On go the leaf ...

Big engines like the 707-horsepower monster Dodge put in the Challenger Hellcat or Volvo's little four-cylinder that makes 425 ponies get all the attention these days. But there are millions of tiny ...

Several days a week, Stan and Kiyomi Hutchings relax on their brick-lined backyard patio in Old Palo Alto. They enjoy reading under the wisteria canopy and eating lunch on blue-and-white cotton ...

GREENWICH — The low frequency and loud buzzing of gas-powered leaf blowers may be the reason why the town of Greenwich further restricts their use. The town currently restricts use to certain times of ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - From the city to the suburbs, the hum of leaf blowers is a familiar sound. But it's not the noise that has people up in arms-- it's their potential health hazard. They clear ...