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AQLI: new data reveals little progress globally in reducing air pollution over the last two decades

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New data from the Air Quality Life Index (AQLI), which converts particulate air pollution into its impact on life expectancy, shows that particulate pollution was the greatest risk to human health before COVID-19. The good news is that there is now a track record of countries deciding to take action and succeeding in cleaning the air.

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Report Finds Water Stress Rapidly Becoming Key Strategic Risk to Commerce; Impending Water/Energy Collision

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Among the increasing challenges is that while the sourcing, processing, and delivery of clean water is becoming more energy-intensive, the extraction and refining of fossil fuels and their substitutes is trending towards increasing water requirements per unit of fuel produced as energy companies work with progressively lower grade resources.

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My Cycling trip from Agra to Bikaner

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Enterprising hunters in Afghanistan and Pakistan were the possible cause for a change in migration routes. Unlike Bharatpur’s marriage palaces, this was actually the genuine stuff, an old palace converted into a hotel. The wind gods from Pakistan were doing their best to slow us down. There is no heating at most places.

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