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2018 Environmental Performance Index: Air quality top public health threat

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Low scores on the EPI are indicative of the need for national sustainability efforts on a number of fronts, especially cleaning up air quality, protecting biodiversity, and reducing GHG emissions, said the researchers. All trend analyses are based on backcasting this year’s EPI methods on historical data. 2018 EPI Trends.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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Meanwhile, legal scholars and civil-society groups are asking whether a hands-off border can really keep Europe’s hands clean. In early 2017, in the forest highlands of eastern Guinea, a man I’ll call Jacob began a journey that would take him across five Saharan countries and multiple failed sea crossings. One migrant with no money.

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