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HEI: 95%+ of world’s population live in areas of unhealthy air

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Comparison of 2016 annual average PM 2.5 coal, wood, and dung) for cooking and heating. billion people—one in three global citizens—were exposed to household air pollution from the use of solid fuels (for example, coal, wood, charcoal, dung, or other biomass) for cooking and heating. State of Global Air 2018.

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New inventory of black carbon emissions from China finds 2007 levels higher than previously reported

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The paper by researchers from Peking University and Environment Canada appears in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. Comparison of relative contributions from various sources to total BC emissions between China and other countries/regions including India, North America, and Africa. Credit: ACS, Wang et al.

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Study finds rising temperatures increase risk of unhealthy ozone levels absent sharp cuts in precursors

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These gases come from human activities such as combustion of coal and oil as well as natural sources such as emissions from plants. A comparison of regional to global model projections shows that the global model is biased high in surface ozone compared to the regional model and compared to observations. Supercomputing. Pfister, G.

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