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Ice core data show why air pollution is dropping more slowly in US and Western Europe despite lower sulfur emissions

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A new study led by Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Hokkaido University and the University of Washington explains why. We need to understand this multiphase chemistry in the atmosphere to design an efficient strategy to manage air pollution and accurately predict future air pollution and climate change impacts.

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U Toronto studies find traffic emissions spread farther than thought; 25% of cars causing 90% of pollution

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A trio of recently published studies from a team of University of Toronto engineers has found that air pollution could be spreading up to three times farther than thought, contributing to varying levels of air quality across cities. Source: University of Toronto. 8, 2881-2912, doi: 10.5194/amtd-8-2881-2015. Click to enlarge.

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The Power Engineer Electrifying John Deere’s Tractors, Trucks, and More

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Power electrics and electrification of agricultural equipment can help change our world for the better by reducing the equipment’s greenhouse gas footprint, and providing food and fiber to feed, house, and clothe the world.” This institution became the Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology in 2013).

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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CRAWFORD EMPLOYER Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. TITLE ‘Professor of civil engineering, agronomy, and electrical and computer engineering MEMBER GRADE Fellow ALMA MATERS University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Ohio State University, Columbus But her engineering path eventually led her back to agriculture.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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Mediterranean migration hit international headlines in 2015 when the Syrian civil war helped drive up numbers to around 1 million people. But the post-2015 rules ballooned its budget. was slowly changing its hodgepodge of barriers to keep out Jacob and hundreds of thousands of other migrants. But that was an unusual year.

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Study: new international agreements needed to ensure sustainable supply of minerals and metals for low-carbon energy tech

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Climate change mitigation will create new natural resource and supply chain opportunities and dilemmas, because substantial amounts of raw materials will be required to build new low-carbon energy devices and infrastructure. Sovacool, Professor of Energy Policy at the University of Sussex. Their paper is published in Science.

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This Fusion Reactor Is Held Together With Tape

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In 2015, Mumgaard huddled with a group of his fellow MIT researchers to rethink the approach to fusion power. national labs and universities as well as international research institutes. Indeed, each of CFS’s six founders have worked on different aspects of Iter and contributed to its foundational physics.

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