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Study: IMO low-sulfur fuel standards will decrease childhood asthma cases, premature deaths; climate tradeoffs

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While the health benefits are clear, the research also quantifies tradeoffs in terms of climate. Therefore, stronger international shipping policies may need to achieve climate and health targets by jointly reducing greenhouse gases and air pollution. These costs will be borne by consumers in the prices of goods they buy.

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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

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This sponsored article is brought to you by COMSOL. Anthropogenic climate change confronts humanity with a challenge: How can we keep warm now as we try to prevent our world from overheating in the future? Out of Finland’s energy-related emissions, 82 percent come from heating domestic buildings (Ref.

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Test of Planet-Cooling Scheme Could Start in 2022

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This question of whether climate change becomes so bad that we have to do something to dull its impacts and reduce human suffering is a very big one,” says Keutsch, an atmospheric chemist. For many, the mere idea of purposefully intervening in the climate system is problematic and worth shutting down before it gains traction.

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