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 ...

Children exposed to traffic-related air pollution show seasonal changes in their nasal bacteria, with winter pollution driving a shift toward less diverse, and potentially more harmful, microbial ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On New Year's Day, several people messaged me to ask if I had noticed how bad the air quality was in Phoenix after the previous ...

Students in this San Diego beach town face sewage pollution that causes headaches, asthma, rashes and brain fog, as schools ...

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 ...

Decreases in ambient air pollution levels over the past 20 years in Southern California were associated with significant reductions in bronchitic symptoms in children with and without asthma, ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2020, Dr. Deborah Gentile helped lead a study that showed children living near major sources of industrial pollution in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County were diagnosed with asthma at triple the ...

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 ...

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 ...