Editor's Pick

The dichotomy of Defra advocating the ‘safer’ use of wood burning stoves, while also funding campaigns warning of their dangers, has been thrown into focus this week by the revelation that they are paying social media influencers to promote the ‘Burn Better’ campaign.

While prenatal exposure to air pollution has previously been linked with long-term respiratory problems, a team from the Penn State College of Medicine in collaboration with the Maternal-Infant Research on Environmental Chemicals, set out to investigate the lesser studied impact of prenatal air pollution exposure on newborn babies.