A UC Davis analysis of 40 empirical studies found that air pollution is associated with differences in children’s brains. (Getty Images) Outdoor air pollution from power plants, fires and cars ...

About 17,000 — that’s how many people were ordered to evacuate following a Rockdale County chemical plant fire on Sunday. Hundreds of residents reported symptoms of skin irritation, watery eyes and ...

A non-partisan group of climate scientists called "Science Moms" just launched a national ad campaign highlighting the harmful effects of air pollution on children's health. Click here and here to ...

Outdoor air pollution from power plants, fires and cars continues to degrade human, animal and environmental health around the globe. New research shows that even pollution levels that are below ...

Air pollution is harming children’s eyesight, warns a new study. Exposure to lower levels of air pollutants is linked to how well children can see without glasses, say scientists. Their findings show ...

A recent study reveals that exposure to air pollution before conception could have consequences on children's health. Researchers have observed a link between this exposure and a higher body mass ...

Air pollution could be harming children’s eyesight with cleaner air helping to protect their vision, researchers have found. Harmful emissions such as nitrogen dioxide have already been linked to ...

Air pollution contributes to the death of hundreds of thousands of children under 5 worldwide every year; the majority of those deaths are linked to indoor air pollution. In Vietnam, a country plagued ...

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 ...

Shelby County, TN, ranks high in childhood asthma-related ER visits and hospitalizations, and received an "F" for ozone pollution. Children are particularly vulnerable to air pollution due to their ...

Outdoor air pollution from power plants, fires and cars continues to degrade human, animal and environmental health around the globe. New research shows that even pollution levels that are below ...