Wood burning stove with smoke coming out and child reading at desk with the smoke looming around them.
Clearing the Air – Can Pollution Affect Kids’ Grades?

Air pollution is a big killer. Air pollution of all kinds helped kill 4.2 million people globally in 2019, according to the World Health Organization. It can damage nearly every organ in the body, worsening asthma and leading to cancer and heart disease. It especially affects pregnant women and can damage a growing fetus. Air pollution also […]

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Maggie Fox is a journalist with more than 40 years experience reporting from around the world. She’s worked for Reuters, CNN, NBC, ABC, and various newspapers, reporting from Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and, for the past 25 years, on medicine, science, and global health from Washington, DC.

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