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Young patients are treated for dengue fever at a hospital in Paraguay. Mosquito nets covers their beds. Credit: Norberto Duarte/AFP/Getty Images

Keeping Global Warming to 1.5 Degrees Could Spare Millions Pain of Dengue Fever

By Neela Banerjee

A layer of smog sits over Salt Lake City. Credit: Eltiempo10/CC-BY-SA-4.0

Pruitt Plans to Radically Alter How Clean Air Standards Are Set

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Poultry industry chicken houses can hold tens of thousands of birds. Credit: U.S. Department of Agriculture

Giant Chicken Houses Overrun Delmarva, and Neighbors Fear It's Making Them Sick

By Georgina Gustin

The Gothenburg Protocol has been helping reduce emissions that cross borders. It was amended to add black carbon, a short-lived climate pollutant wreaking havoc on the Arctic. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

The Most Important Climate Treaty You’ve Never Heard Of

By Sabrina Shankman

A coal truck leaves a power plant in Utah. Fossil fuel combustion in power plants and truck engines is a major producer of fine particulate matter linked to lung damage and other health problems. Credit: George Frey/Getty Images

How Pruitt’s New ‘Secret Science’ Policy Could Undermine Air Pollution Rules

By Marianne Lavelle

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt meets with coal miners in Pennsylvania. Credit: Justin Merriman/Getty Images

How Pruitt's EPA Is Delaying, Weakening and Repealing Clean Air Rules

By Marianne Lavelle

Coal ash ponds in North Carolina. Credit: Waterkeeper Alliance

EPA Environmental Justice Adviser Slams Pruitt's Plan to Weaken Coal Ash Rules

By Phil McKenna

The Arrowhead landfill near Uniontown, a predominantly black community in Alabama, became a dump for coal ash waste about 10 years ago. Credit: Chris Jordan Bloch/Earthjustice

EPA Rejects Civil Rights Complaint Over Alabama Coal Ash Dump

By Phil McKenna

An EPA study found that non-whites face higher exposure to particulate pollution than whites in all but four states and Washington, D.C.  Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images

EPA Finds Black Americans Face More Health-Threatening Air Pollution

By Phil McKenna

Power Plants' Coal Ash Reports Show Toxics Leaking into Groundwater

By Phil McKenna

These eroding coastal bluffs in Alaska are thick with permafrost. Credit: U.S. Geological Survey

Thawing Arctic Permafrost Hides a Toxic Risk: Mercury, in Massive Amounts

By Sabrina Shankman

Refinery in Richmond, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

API Disputes African-American Health Study, Cites Genetics

By Phil McKenna

Heat wave in New York City. Credit: Michael Brown/Getty Images

27 Ways a Heat Wave Can Kill You — A Dire Warning for a Warming Planet

By Georgina Gustin

Lt. j.g. Shiju SantaNivas, an intensive care nurse from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, treats a patient aboard the USNS Comfort in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. Credit: Specialist 2nd Class Stephane Belcher/U.S. Navy

Nurses in Puerto Rico See First-Hand Health Crisis from Climate Disasters

By Phil McKenna

With no running water, Puerto Rico residents in some areas resorted to washing clothes in creeks and drainage ditches. Credit: Ricardo Arduengo/AFP/Getty Images

Desperation Grows in Puerto Rico’s Poor Communities Without Water or Power

By Phil McKenna

Walking through a flooded home in Houston. Credit: Erich Schlegel/Getty

Harvey Aftermath: A Public Health Crisis in the Making

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Mountaintop mining in Appalachia. Credit: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

Trump Admin. Halts Mountaintop Mining Health Risks Study

By Phil McKenna

Factory Farms Put Climate at Risk, Experts Say in Urging WHO to Speak Out

By Georgina Gustin

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