EditorialOslo officials say that the shift to electric cars has noticeably reduced the levels of nitrogen oxides, air pollutants that cause smog and asthma. (David B. Torch/The New York Times)
EditorialParents bring their children in large numbers to an area hospital, with many of them suffering from malaria, gastrotitus and asthma issues after the recent floods, in Dadu, Pakistan on Sept. 20, 2022. (Saiyna Bashir/The New York Times)
EditorialLachlan Rutledge, 6, who has a connective tissue disorder, severe allergies and asthma, which have landed him repeatedly in pediatric intensive care, at his home in Broken Arrow, Okla. on Oct. 3, 2022. (Melissa Lukenbaugh/The New York Times)
EditorialHazel Chandler, sitting for a portrait at home on Jan. 25, 2022, moved to Arizona from California in 1977 and found the air cleaner, but as Phoenix’s population exploded, so did her asthma and breathing problems. (Adriana Zehbrauskas/The New York Times)
EditorialIgnazio D’Andrea and his wife, Giovanna Impalà, in front of their home in Messina, Italy, on Sept. 8, 2021. (Gianni Cipriano/The New York Times)
EditorialMartin Preston, 68, was a New York City employee who helped set up tables, chairs and other equipment at ground zero for months after Sept. 11 and later developed fibrosis in his lungs as well as asthma and severe acid reflux. (Hilary Swift/The New York Times)
EditorialShnya Unity, 24, while being moved out of a Hilton Garden Inn in Midtown Manhattan on Monday, July 26, 2021, and into group shelters. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
EditorialEli Nazario, 13, who has serious allergies and asthma, receives the second dose of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine during an in-home visit on Staten Island, July 16, 2021. (Olga Ginzburg/The New York Times)
EditorialVandee Lakthanasuk, right, with her father, Siengther Lakthanasuk, who has asthma, dons a face mask outside their home, which is near a Chevron refinery, in Richmond, Calif., April 10, 2020. (Preston Gannaway/The New York Times)
EditorialPatricio Gonzalez, 12, who has asthma, with his mother, Gilda Zarate-Gonzalez, outside their home in Fresno, Calif., where smoke from the Creek Fire in Sierra National Forest has been problem for air quality, on Oct. 22, 2020. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)
EditorialRachel Murphy, of Portland, Oregon, delivers her 5-year-old daughter Cora’s daily asthma treatment on Tursday, Sept. 17, 2020. (Celeste Noche/The New York Times)
EditorialKaren Kent, a high school cafeteria worker who was laid off during the pandemic, at home in Pennington, N.J., Sept. 2, 2020. (Mark Makela/The New York Times)
EditorialAn agricultural field under a sky hazy with wildfire smoke in California’s San Joaquin Valley, Aug. 20, 2020. (Brian L. Frank/The New York Times)
EditorialRochelle Allen, right, a respiratory therapist, listens to the lungs of a patient with asthma during a home visit in Oakland, Calif., March 4, 2020. (Alexandra Hootnick/The New York Times)