After he was paralyzed by polio at age 6, Paul Alexander was confined for much of his life to a yellow iron lung that kept him alive. He was not expected to survive after that diagnosis, and even when he beat those odds, his life was mostly constrained by a machine in which he could […]
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Wildfire Smoke Will Worsen, New Study Shows, and Protections Are Few
More than 125 million Americans will be exposed to unhealthy levels of air pollution by the middle of the century, largely because of increased smoke from wildfires, according to estimates released on Monday. Yet there are few good ways to protect communities, experts said. The United States has gotten better at coping with other climate […]
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