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ICL, CMU study associates PM2.5 air pollution in US with >30,000 deaths and reduced life expectancy

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Air quality in the US may be linked with increased mortality and reduced life expectancy according to new research from Imperial College London and the Center for Air, Climate and Energy Solutions at Carnegie Mellon University. excluding Alaska and Hawaii) between 1999 and 2015. million deaths between 1999 to 2015 in the USA, with 18.4

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NSF awards $55.5M to support 3 new Engineering Research Centers; one focused on power electronics

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POETS will be led by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in partnership with Howard University, Stanford University and the University of Arkansas. NEWT will be led by Rice University in partnership with Arizona State University, the University of Texas at El Paso and Yale University.

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Wolfspeed wins 2016 R&D 100 Award for wide bandgap underhood inverter for HEVs/EVs

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This WBG-based system significantly outperforms silicon technology and meaningfully extends the realm of possibility for vehicle inverters, for which it has been earned the achievement of being named one of the top technical breakthrough products released in 2015.

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Study finds methane leaks from three large US natural gas fields in line with EPA estimates

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CIRES is a partnership of NOAA and the University of Colorado Boulder. Methane emissions in the Fayetteville shale region of Arkansas were roughly 43 tons (86,000 lbs) per hour, or 1.0-2.8% 2015) “Quantifying atmospheric methane emissions from the Haynesville, Fayetteville, and northeastern Marcellus shale gas production regions,” J.

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New hybrid sweetgum trees could boost paper, bioenergy production

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Researchers at the University of Georgia (UGA) have crossed American sweetgums with their Chinese cousins, creating hybrid sweetgum trees that have a better growth rate and denser wood than natives, and can produce fiber year-round. which began offering rooted cutting seedlings of the new varieties in 2015. —Scott Merkle.

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