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Air pollution is a serious and often underestimated health threat in the U.S. It is linked to over 50,000 premature deaths each year. Tiny particles in the air, like PM2.5, can get embedded into a ...
Air pollution causes health problems and is attributable to some 50,000 annual deaths in the United States, but not all air ...
By tapping into museum archives, it’s possible to fill in the missing chapters of a region’s pollution history, says ...
A research team led by Prof. Xie Pinhua from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has ...
Astronomers are not the only ones suffering from light pollution’s effects—harmful impacts have been documented in sea turtles, birds, bats, corals, and dozens of other species. “The ...
We deserve a seat at the table when decisions are made about our communities.” Shante Walker, Executive Director of the Niles ...
It’s the largest global platform for environmental outreach, and this year’s theme focuses on a monster issue: ending plastic pollution. It’s hard to truly wrap your head around how much ...
F.E. Warren Air Force Base has a secret underground world full of airmen-created artwork that most people have never seen. Set to disappear after the Minuteman III missiles are replaced, former ...
Reductions have occurred in the number of deaths attributable to the types of pollution associated with extreme poverty. However, these reductions in deaths from household air pollution and water ...
Before Andy Austin became a top courtroom sketch artist in Chicago, she had to overcome an artistic crisis. She’d grown weary of fruit. Apples and oranges, to be exact. Ms. Austin was a stay-at ...
The cross-border health consequences of rising U.S. pollution are easy to picture (guess what happens when you add carcinogens to air and water?) but hard to quantify. One way to gauge what‘s ...