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Health benefits that have resulted from reductions in fine particulate air pollution aren't distributed equally among populations in the U.S., a new Yale-led study finds.

Air pollution has decreased across the U.S., but new research finds health burdens remain unequal among racial groups.

Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The aftermath of the Maui wildfires may have a significant mental and physical health toll. Dangerous wildfires -- fueled by dry conditions and strong winds -- are continuing to sweep across Maui, ravaging the small Hawaiian island. At least 55 people have been killed and a majority of the historic town of Lahaina, which was once the capital of the Kingdom of Hawaii, has been destroyed, according to officials. During a press briefin...

Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The aftermath of the Maui wildfires may have a significant mental and physical health toll. Dangerous wildfires -- fueled by dry conditions and strong winds -- are continuing to sweep across Maui, ravaging the small Hawaiian island. At least 55 people have been killed and a majority of the historic town of Lahaina, which was once the capital of the Kingdom of Hawaii, has been destroyed, according to officials. During a press briefin...

Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The aftermath of the Maui wildfires may have a significant mental and physical health toll. Dangerous wildfires -- fueled by dry conditions and strong winds -- are continuing to sweep across Maui, ravaging the small Hawaiian island. At least 55 people have been killed and a majority of the historic town of Lahaina, which was once the capital of the Kingdom of Hawaii, has been destroyed, according to officials. During a press briefin...

Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The aftermath of the Maui wildfires may have a significant mental and physical health toll.

A dispatch from Phoenix.

(NEW YORK) — The Pacific Northwest was hit by a record-breaking heat wave over the weekend, with the highest temperatures seen at this point in the season. Portland, Oregon, reached 93 degrees on Saturday — breaking a record set in 1973 — and 92 degrees […]

(NEW YORK) -- The Pacific Northwest was hit by a record-breaking heat wave over the weekend, with the highest temperatures seen at this point in the season. Portland, Oregon, reached 93 degrees on Saturday -- breaking a record set in 1973 -- and 92 degrees on Sunday, according to National Weather Service Portland. Meanwhile, in

As a dangerous heat wave rips through the Pacific Northwest, here's how being exposed to extreme heat can be harmful to the body.