Carbon monoxide is an odorless, colorless gas that takes hundreds of lives each year, and makes even more people sick — but there are steps you can take to help keep yourself and your family safe.

Carbon monoxide, often called the “silent killer,” has no taste, odor or color, yet prolonged inhalation of the invisible gas has been tied to the recent deaths of several American tourists ...

Miller Gardner, the 14-year-old son of the retired Yankees player Brett Gardner, died from carbon monoxide poisoning while on vacation in Costa Rica. Here’s why the gas is so dangerous.