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Is Air Pollution Harming Children’s Brains?

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Air pollution’s latest victim: Children’s cognitive development. Elementary school children who are exposed to chronic air pollution may develop cognitive abilities more slowly than children who breathe cleaner air, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal PLOS Medicine. Researchers with the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL) surveyed over two thousand Barcelona children…

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