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WV leaders fight tighter carbon pollution standards amid public health risks from coal-fired plants

Asthma and low life expectancy are highly prevalent in communities around West Virginia’s coal-fired power plants, federal data show.
Shocking report says air pollution is cutting years off the lives of billions of people

Shocking report says air pollution is cutting years off the lives of billions of people

“Air pollution is the greatest external threat to human health on the planet.”
Laura Spinney: Why declining birth rates are good news for life on Earth

Laura Spinney: Why declining birth rates are good news for life on Earth

In the midst of a climate crisis with 8 billion humans on the globe, it's absurd to say that what's lacking is babies.

How the human life span doubled in 100 years
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How the human life span doubled in 100 years

Between 1920 and 2020, the average human life span doubled. How did we do it? Science mattered — but so did activism.
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Your ZIP code and your life expectancy

For neighborhoods with historically high levels of air pollution, a temporary clearing of the air won't reverse years of damage wrought by the high levels of particulate pollution, ozone and other pollutants in the air they breathe.

The problem with Vienna's lofty livability ranking

The problem with Vienna's lofty livability ranking

A new report questions the methods used by the Economist Intelligence Unit to rank global cities, saying that environmental justice issues can get ignored.
Global warming: The real-time cost of climate change and the needed real-time response
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Global warming: The real-time cost of climate change and the needed real-time response

Changes in agricultural productivity patterns could cost the countrys farmers an estimated 15 to 18 percent of their incomes.
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