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HEI study links fossil fuel combustion with more than 1 million deaths globally

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Coal combustion alone was responsible for half of those deaths, with natural gas and oil combustion accounting for the other half. across the industrialized nations of the global north, windblown dust was a major source of PM 2.5 The study team, led by Dr. Erin McDuffie and Dr. Randall Martin of Washington University in St.

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$12+M awarded to 4 projects seeking to design crops with ability to fix their own nitrogen; no artificial fertilizers

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Most farms rely on great quantities of industrially-produced, nitrogen-rich fertilizer to ensure crop yields, but doing so comes with trade-offs. The scientists will search Hawaiian volcanoes, American coal seam fires and German fire pits for the elusive heat-lover, in a bid to recover its lost potential. Louis biologist Himadri B.

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Inorganic mercury converted to more toxic and bio-accumulative monomethylmercury in ocean waters, possibly by microbes

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After two years of testing water samples across the Arctic Ocean, the researchers found that inorganic mercury, released by human activities such as industry and coal burning, undergoes a process called methylation and becomes monomethylmercury. Louis, Holger Hintelmann, Jane L. —Igor Lehnherr. Igor Lehnherr, Vincent L.

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Iowa State to manage biorefinery projects for new Manufacturing USA Institute

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That could save the chemical industry more than $9 billion annually, according to the US Department of Energy’s announcement of the institute. The new process produces sugars that can be fermented to biofuels and a solid fuel suitable as a coal substitute. Louis; the State of Iowa; the Iowa Energy Center; and Iowa State.

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