In 2015, when Karen Grzywinski heard that the Shenango Coke Works near Pittsburgh was closing after 54 years in operation, she didn’t believe it. Neither did her neighbors, some of whom had joined her ...

More than 131 million people live in places with unhealthy air quality, according to the American Lung Association's 2024 State of Air report. This is an increase of 11.7 million people from the ...

A foggy view of the downtown skyline in Los Angeles, California. A recent study by the University of Southern California revealed that exposure to air pollution can harm children’s learning and memory ...

Here’s how Utahns and health professionals can take action now to protect the EPA’s ability to limit climate-heating pollution and protect our children.

It’s easy to blame parents when young children gain too much weight, but the latest research suggests that certain obesity risk factors are out of Mom and Dad’s control. In a study published this week ...

YMCA campers climb a sand dune in Coronado, Calif., in July. Campers must be bused to various beaches due to Imperial Beach being closed because of raw sewage and chemical pollution. (Luke Johnson / ...

Humans take more than 22,000 breaths a day and experts say the quality of the air we breathe is important. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports more than 90% of children breathe air so polluted ...

High levels of exposure to traffic-related air pollution at a very young age may lead to structural changes in the brain, a new imaging study suggests. Brain scans of 12-year-old children show reduced ...

Winter is coming, that’s for sure. The northeastern city of Harbin today ushered in the season with smog so thick that visibility was reportedly limited to 10 meters in places. Classes were canceled, ...

For the past several years, air pollution levels in Delhi-NCR and adjoining regions rise steeply to hazardous levels, especially between Oct and Jan. Unfortunately, victims of this health hazard are ...

To play after school, 8-year-old Abdullah must cross Lonyo Street, where there is heavy truck traffic, twice: once to drop ...