Ariel Wittenberg

After wildfires ravaged Los Angeles a year ago, the city’s Cedars-Sinai hospital saw a spike in patients with heart attacks, respiratory illnesses and even strange blood tests. The health dangers were outlined in one of the first major studies about the f... See more

A must-pass defense bill expected to be signed by President Donald Trump this week directs a federal watchdog to investigate a tick-related conspiracy theory that has been promoted by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Buried on page 833 of the Nation... See more

The Trump administration is allowing coal plants to release more pollution at a time when utilities across the country are canceling plans to retire aging coal facilities so they can be used to power artificial intelligence. Those twin trends — weaker pol... See more

As Hurricane Helene battered Clinch Memorial Hospital last year, its chief executive was thinking about the storm shutters the hospital couldn’t afford. Clinch Memorial had finished a years-in-the-making renovation weeks before the storm struck. As part o... See more

Global heat-related deaths have surged since the 1990s, with high temperatures killing more than half-a-million people annually, according to an audit on the worldwide health impacts of climate change. “That means approximately one heat-related death ever... See more