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A close-up photo of the face of Hu Hushen, a 78-year-old former miner, who breathes with the help of extra oxygen at Yangjia Hospital in Zhejiang Province, China, on October 19, 2015.

China's Attack on a Top Industrial Health Hazard

by Yaming You

How China is bringing the devastating lung disease pneumoconiosis to its knees

Environment
A man exercises in a park on a smoggy morning in New Delhi, India, on November 9, 2017.

Every Breath We Take

by Michael Brauer, Susan Anenberg

Air pollution is a pernicious threat linked to millions of deaths each year

A man looks from the window of his home as he smokes a cigarette amid the coronavirus pandemic in Alexandria, Egypt on December 3, 2020.
Governance

Unknowing Victims

by Chukwuma Okereke, Louisa Johnson, Luisa S. Flor

The risk of secondhand smoke exposure during COVID lockdowns

Parched land is pictured around the Lake Wegnia, in Sahel region of Koulikoro, Mali on November 22, 2019. Picture Shows a lonely tree, small and scrubby with many of its branches dead. It’s in a dry gully with a few other green scrubby bushes scattered in the frame—but mostly nothing but dry yellow dirt and sand everywhere the eye can see off into the distance. REUTERS/Arouna Sissoko
Environment

Weathering the Sahel

by Natalie M. Cormier

The overuse of land packs a punch that promises to get worse over time