New research reveals that reducing air pollution not only improves children’s eyesight but could also play a crucial role in tackling the soaring rates of myopia worldwide. Study: Benefits of clean ...
A Republic reader is concerned about the effects of air pollution on children, and wants to know how to push for change.
In this Feb. 28, 2022, file photo, Daniela Ochoa-Gonzalez, Moms Clean Air Force, speaks outside as the Supreme Court hears from coal companies and their partisan allies who are trying to gut the Clean ...
It’s well established that air pollution causes a wide variety of harms to the human body, raising the risk of heart disease, respiratory diseases and strokes. But new research has highlighted yet ...
For most of my professional life I have thought about air pollution through the organs I know best. As a heart and lung surgeon, I spent decades studying how polluted air damages lungs, damages the ...
Air pollution ranks among the world's deadliest threats, causing an estimated 8 million deaths in 2021, according to a recent analysis from a United Nations partnership. That same year, pollutants ...
In October 1948, a thick haze rolled into Donora, Pennsylvania, a steel town in the Monongahela Valley, south of Pittsburgh.