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Study estimates ~4M children worldwide develop asthma each year because of NO2 air pollution

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About 4 million children worldwide develop asthma each year because of inhaling nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) air pollution, according to an open-access study published in The Lancet Planetary Health by researchers at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH). Achakulwisut et al.

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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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Car users from the world’s least affluent cities are exposed to a disproportionate amount of in-car air pollution because they rely heavily on opening their windows for ventilation, according to a new global study led by researchers at the University of Surrey. —Professor Prashant Kumar, Director of GCARE at the University of Surrey.

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The AI Boom Rests on Billions of Tonnes of Concrete

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They all follow a universal template that Qoori developed to optimize the construction of the company’s ever-larger centers. ROADS TO CLEANER CONCRETE As the big-data construction boom boosts the tech industry’s emissions, the reinvention of concrete could play a major role in solving the problem. million square feet) of floor space.

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This Essential Element of the Power Grid Is in Critically Short Supply

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The European Green Deal , which plans for an enormous build-out of Europes transmission network by 2030 to accelerate electrification, is imperiled by the protracted wait times for transformers, says Joannes Laveyne , an electrical engineer and energy-systems expert at Ghent University, in Belgium. But those efforts wont ease the logjam soon.

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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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Some of the world’s cities suffer disproportionate economic losses because of the health consequences of in-car air pollution, according to a new study by an international team led by researchers at the University of Surrey (UK). Surrey’s Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE) set out to investigate whether the amount of PM 2.5

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