The report outlines urgent priorities to ensure that clean air is treated as an essential component of the human right to a healthy environment.

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Even at levels safe for humans, air pollution can disrupt the way some insects communicate with plants, and with each other.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) welcomes the opportunity to provide information to the Special Rapporteur to inform her upcoming report to the United Nations Human Rights Council in its sixty-first session.

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Coal-fired power plants are a major source of mercury contamination for people and the environment. Here's what you need to know.

I grew up in rural Colorado, deep in the mountains, and I can still remember the first time I visited Denver in the early 2000s. The city sits on the plain, skyscrapers rising and buildings extending ...

I grew up in rural Colorado, deep in the mountains, and I can still remember the first time I visited Denver in the early 2000s. The city sits on the plain, skyscrapers rising and buildings extending ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jenni Shearston, University of Colorado Boulder (THE CONVERSATION) I grew up in rural ...