This week, millions of Americans are anxiously scanning air quality maps focusing on two colors: red and purple. Red indicates "unhealthy" air quality, and purple? "Very unhealthy." When did purple ...
Smoke from Canadian wildfires is again blanketing parts of the U.S. in a thick haze. Midwestern cities like Chicago, Minneapolis, Detroit and Milwaukee posted some of the worst air quality in the ...
NEW YORK — “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it,” Shug tells Celie in Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple.” In nature, among the priestly ...