Telling kids to avoid standing near idling vehicles waiting to pick them up from school, and pushing schools to limit idling with the air conditioning on can make a difference too.

Finally, Humble recommends offsetting kids' risk from air pollution with proper nutrition and maintaining healthy lifestyles in other ways. “Those are areas where parents have direct control ...

The effects of air pollution on kids "should have parents up in arms" to force changes in air pollution regulations, a reader said. Experts say children exposed to high air pollution levels can lose ...