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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Backed by science and heart, Moms Clean Air Force, a nonprofit environmental advocacy group whose goal is to protect clean air and children’s health — and EcoMadres, their Latino community outreach ...

Alarming new research has linked air pollution to a spike in children’s trips to emergency rooms for psychiatric problems, ranging from suicide and anxiety to schizophrenia. On days when kids were ...

A foggy view of the downtown skyline in Los Angeles, California. A recent study by the University of Southern California revealed that exposure to air pollution can harm children’s learning and memory ...

Ozone exposure in the first years of life correlated with a higher likelihood of asthma and wheeze at age 4 to 6. Ozone represents the criteria air pollutant most commonly exceeded among U.S. children ...