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Modeling study suggests 1.8M excess deaths attributable to urban air pollution in 2019

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million excess deaths in cities globally in 2019. concentrations and associated mortality trends in more than 13,000 cities globally between 2000-2019. attributable mortality rates between 2000 and 2019 for the top 250 most populated urban areas based on 2019 WorldPop estimates. (A) g) per cubic meter.

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Gasoline consumption per capita in 2020 was on par with that in 1965

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The biggest drop was in April 2020 (a reduction of 40% compared with April 2019) followed by a gradual rebound later in the year. In December 2020, the reduction was 11% compared with December 2019. Overall , vehicle miles traveled in 2020 were down 13% compared with 2019. Total consumption. Consumption per capita.

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Arizona State University Professor’s Work to Stabilize the Grid Pays Off

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He is a professor of power systems engineering in the Fulton program at Arizona State University , in Tempe. Vijay Vittal Employer Arizona State University, in Tempe Title Regents professor of electrical, computer, and energy engineering Member grade Life Fellow Alma mater B.M.S. in EE at Iowa State University , in Ames.

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Production of crude oil as a percentage of proved reserves: Recent worldwide and US trends

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However, production in 2020 (the first year of the pandemic) decreased by 7% compared with 2019 both in the world and in the United States. Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan. Production as % of reserves.

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Traditional retail sales steady despite e-commerce

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E-commerce sales in the United States in 2019 amounted to 11.0% In comparison, the corresponding percentage in 2000 was only 0.9%. The years examined were 2015 through 2019. by Michael Sivak, Sivak Applied Research. of all retail sales— the highest percentage yet.

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The Future We Saw Coming Is Now

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By the time we gave all the details in a 2019 feature article , it was clear that this device was destined to be the successor to the FinFET. Moore first spotted the second technology, back-side power delivery , at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting in 2019. Forrest was a founder of Universal Display Corp.,

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Study associates long-term exposure to air pollution with increasing emphysema

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Long-term exposure to ambient air pollutants, especially O 3 (ozone), is significantly associated with increasing emphysema, according to a new study led by the University of Washington, Columbia University and the University at Buffalo. This work in the MESA Air study was led at the University of Washington.

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