Fixing Air Pollution Could Dramatically Improve Health Disparities
The most marginalized people are breathing the most polluted air, and improving it could improve health equity worldwide
The most marginalized people are breathing the most polluted air, and improving it could improve health equity worldwide
The discovery of a hole in Earth’s protective ozone layer in 1985 led to a worldwide effort to heal it. But are there lessons that can be applied to today’s treaty talks on climate change?...
Historical bad practices have left a legacy of pollution in the fragile ecosystem of Antarctica, but efforts are underway to chart a better future
Researchers in Hawaii are studying the effects of the deadly blazes on its island of Maui, including how they have impacted drinking-water quality and might affect local marine ecosystems...
As giant plumes from fires in Canada billow over the U.S., experts explain what smoke does to your health—and how to protect yourself
This first-of-its-kind federal funding is meant to jump-start a new industry that can siphon climate pollution from the air
Wildfire smoke from Canada is causing poor air quality along the East Coast. Here’s what those air quality alerts mean
A federal rule would require companies to disclose whether their products contain chemicals known as PFASs
Health-damaging PFASs are nearly impossible to break down—but a new hot-water technique can destroy them
Toxic dust plagues marginalized communities on the shores of this disappearing salt lake.
Stanford University researchers found high levels of the carcinogen benzene in California and Colorado homes that used gas stoves
The American Lung Association says a proposed EPA rule to curtail tailpipe pollution, which would bolster electric car adoption, could help the country avoid premature deaths and millions of asthma attacks...
Satellite monitoring of air quality could help reduce premature death from smoke exposure
Formerly “adjacent” wetlands in more than half of all states may be dredged or filled now that their federal protections have been stripped
Wildfire smoke not only contains dangerous-to-breathe particles but also can react with urban air pollution to create toxic ozone
Most of the eastern U.S. has been swathed in smoke billowing off more than 400 wildfires across Canada
Good news: the world is discussing a treaty to stem plastic pollution. Bad news: fossil-fuel interests are trying to weaken it
The Montreal Protocol was intended to save Earth’s ozone layer, but it also helped slow global warming and delayed the melting of Arctic sea ice
Used diapers can replace up to 40 percent of the sand that is typically used in making concrete, lowering costs and keeping more trash out of landfills
The EPA has announced new draft rules that would require power plants that burn fossil fuels to capture 90 percent of their climate-warming emissions
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