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New maps give Europeans close-up picture of air pollution from diffuse sources

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The E-PRTR, launched in 2009 to improve access to environmental information, contains data reported by individual industrial facilities (point sources) and, as of now, information on emissions from road transport, shipping, aviation, heating of buildings, agriculture and small businesses (diffuse sources). Click to enlarge.

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U.S. vs. China Rivalry Boosts Tech—and Tensions

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B-2 Stealth Bomber dropped bombs on the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Serbia, killing three people. In 2009 and 2010, Hinton and Deng worked together at Microsoft on speech recognition and Deng, then Editor-In-Chief of the. That back-and-forth worries U.S. Today’s competition has roots in an incident on. 7 May 1999 , when a U.S.

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