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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).

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Landsat Proved the Power of Remote Sensing

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As an example, he noted the United States was in the process of developing new satellites to survey Earth’s natural resources. Three years later, on 23 July 1972, NASA launched what would be the first Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS). The Soviet grain deal gave Landsat a new use: predicting crop yields worldwide The U.S.

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Kuwait Researchers Forecast Global Conventional Crude Oil Production Will Peak in 2014; New Multicyclic Hubbert Model

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Scientists from Kuwait University and Kuwait Oil Company are forecasting that world conventional crude oil production will peak in 2014—almost a decade earlier than some other predictions. World crude oil production model. Credit: ACS, Nashawi et al. Click to enlarge. Energy Fuels , Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/ef901240p.

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Europe/US team: transitioning to a low-carbon world will create new rivalries, winners and losers

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Saudi Arabia and Kuwait might, and should be encouraged to do so. Nigeria or Algeria cannot do the same for their oil industry. —Goldthau et al. The path from planned to market economies meant economic hardship for most of the former communist bloc; it also showed how elites can hijack transition processes for personal gain.

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Ethanol Producers Group Calls for Congress to Repeal International Indirect Land Use Provision in RFS2

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According to Buis, the peer review underscores Growth Energy’s position that there is no universally-accepted scientific model for measuring indirect land use changes. This was accompanied by a picture of convoys entering Iraq from Kuwait. Earlier post.). Growth Energy is an association of US ethanol producers.

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2018 Environmental Performance Index: Air quality top public health threat

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Now in its twentieth year, the biennial report is produced by researchers at Yale and Columbia Universities in collaboration with the World Economic Forum. In general, high scorers exhibit long-standing commitments to protecting public health, preserving natural resources, and decoupling greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from economic activity.

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