The effects of air pollution on kids "should have parents up in arms" to force changes in air pollution regulations, a reader said. Experts say children exposed to high air pollution levels can lose ...

Climate change affects everyone, but especially children. Their small bodies—and the fact that they grow so rapidly, starting from the time they’re in utero—make them more vulnerable to toxins, ...

Delhi-NCR's severe air quality impacts children from the womb. Pollutants affect fetal development, leading to respiratory ...

A new study published in The Lancet Planetary Health reported that moderate levels of outdoor air pollutants, ozone, and fine particulate matter correlated to non-viral asthma attacks in children and ...

Pollution is bad news for everybody, but children under the age of five with their young organs, immune systems and brains are particularly vulnerable at that stage of development. Two new reports ...

Air pollution might raise a kid's risk of diabetes, new research shows. Pollution has long been known to cause or worsen lung cancer, asthma and cardiovascular damage. The study from a team at the ...

Assessing the impact of localized traffic pollution personal exposure is critical in light of the various health effects that have been found to be associated with proximity to highways (Wjst et al., ...

About one in 36 children in the United States are on the autism spectrum, but scientists still don’t know why some kids’ ...

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 night's firework celebrations. It was plain to see that day. Particulate ...