Sound environmental sanitation: Road to health and wealth. Access to sanitation facilities is a basic human right that safeguards health and human dignity. [News Source]

Pesticides: A hazardous to your health. How can you make environmentally friendly and healthy decisions when taking care of your lawn and garden? [News Source]

City seeks reduction in levels of mercury. Washington is asking the N.C. General Assembly adopt a mercury-reduction rule that mandates a 90-percent reduction of mercury emissions from all air-emission sources. [News Source]

I’ll believe it when I breathe it. To most people living in Los Angeles, the 2,400 premature deaths attributed annually to soot and smog generated by the California's three ports compete with roadside bombs in Baghdad for relevance: It's something that happens over there. [News Source]

Air quality warning arrives earlier in county. San Joaquin County has declared one Spare the Air Day nearly a month before last years first, but officials say future air quality hard to predict. [News Source]

Smoke from fireworks unhealthy. Air-quality officials on Monday warned San Joaquin Valley residents about possibly dangerous showers of microscopic pollution in the smoke from Fourth of July fireworks. [News Source]

Air Pollution Harms Healthy Kids’ Lung Function (Health Scout) Carbon from vehicle exhaust finds its way into youngsters' airways, study finds. [News Source]

Air Pollution Harms Healthy Kids’ Lung Function (HealthDay via Yahoo! News) WEDNESDAY, July 5 (HealthDay News) -- Air pollution, including tiny carbon particles from motor exhaust, works its way into children's airways and diminishes their lung function, British researchers say. [News Source]

Air pollution settles over the West’s national parks (Summit Daily News) This summer, more than 2 million visitors will enjoy the high peaks and mountain meadows of Rocky Mountain National Park in northern Colorado. Packaged in their air-conditioned cars and yearning for the next rest stop, very few of them will notice that those meadows have lost some of their color. [News Source]

Athens Breeding “Super Mosquitoes” (Slashdot) Chemisor writes "Air pollution and cramped housing conditions in Athens, Greece, are creating a new breed of mosquitoes which are bigger, faster, and can smell humans from farther away. The super insects have color vision and detect humans from 25-30 meters, which is about 50% farther than the ordinary mosquitoe. Beating their wing 500 times a second provides them with extra speed, and the larger [News Source]

Tackling the green challenge can create Welsh jobs. Wales is the only part of the UK where carbon emissions are still rising. [News Source]