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Global study shows uneven urbanization among large cities in the last two decades

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Pearl River Delta (PRD) and Beijing in China, São Paulo in Brazil). Kathmandu in Nepal, Dar es Salaam in Tanzania). Due to the rapid economic growth in the study period, China invested a large amount of resources into infrastructure construction for advancing the urban living environment. New York in US, Tokyo in Japan).

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Study finds economic losses due to health burdens caused by in-car PM2.5 exposure inversely proportional to per capita GDP

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For the study, published in the journal Environment International , the team monitored pollution hotspots in 10 global cities: Dhaka (Bangladesh); São Paulo (Brazil); Guangzhou (China); Medellín (Colombia); Cairo (Egypt); Addis Ababa (Ethiopia); Chennai (India); Sulaymaniyah (Iraq); Blantyre (Malawi); and Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania).?.

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Drivers from the world’s poorest cities who keep their windows down are exposed to 80% more air pollution

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Science of the Total Environment , 141395 doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141395. The research team investigated PM 2.5 and PM 10 exposure levels inside vehicles during peak hours in the morning and evening, as well as off-peak hours in the middle of the day. Morawska, L., Muula, A.S., Ngowi, A.V., 2020.141395.

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