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BRS working president KT Rama Rao has assured support to citizens opposing the felling of trees around Hyderabad’s KBR Park for road widening. Calling the park an invaluable eco ...

Wildfire smoke kills tens of thousands of people a year. Here’s how it attacks the body

Smoke from wildfires — which are burning more of the Northern Hemisphere as Earth warms — attacks nearly every system in the ...

Cook County shatters air quality record, EPA data shows, as dangerous wildfire smoke envelops region

Residents warned to stay inside as fine particulate matter from wildfire smoke from Canada and Minnesota reaches hazardous ...

How bad is wildfire smoke? Graphics show how toxic air affects your health

Chemicals and particles too small to be seen from wildfire smoke can cause problems ranging from minor to serious ...
National Audubon Society

Wait—Do Woodpeckers Kill Trees?

If you’ve ever witnessed a Pileated Woodpecker chiseling away at a tree trunk, you might have wondered if all that wood pecking was taking a toll on the tree. Pileated nest holes, after all, can ...

How a Seed in Space Became a Tree in Madison Square

Seeds that flew on a NASA mission were planted, and now a sweet gum tree will be celebrated as a “moon tree” in Manhattan.

‘Our national lung’: France’s nature paradise saved by firefighters but recovery could take 30 years

The forest hosted a UNESCO conference in 1948 that led to the creation of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, ...
Nanowerk

Magnetic soft robot adapts to narrowing airways for targeted lung drug delivery

A soft magnetic robot changes how it moves as lung airways narrow, enabling targeted drug transport, controlled release, and ...
STAT

Martha Lillard, last U.S. polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78 in Oklahoma

Martha Lillard had just turned 5 when she was diagnosed with polio and depended on an iron lung to live. She died June 26 in ...

Climate change leaves northern tree swallows more vulnerable than those in the southern US

Tree swallows in the northern U.S. and Canada face the greatest risk from climate change despite responding to temperature ...

Last U.S. polio patient with an iron lung dies at 78 in Oklahoma

Martha Lillard was diagnosed with polio at age 5. For the past two years, she was in an iron lung nearly 24 hours a day.
Discover Wildlife

"It causes rapid death in humans, with symptoms including lung collapse and brain haemorrhage"

Often dubbed the most poisonous plant in the UK, Oenanthe crocata, or hemlock water-dropwort, has an array of ...