Day: December 16, 2020

What Can COVID-19 Teach Our Government About Communicating Air Quality?

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Making information widely accessible to the people has been central to India’s COVID-19 response. Since the pandemic began, people have developed new ways of disseminating information and raising awareness – like online dashboards that quantify the epidemic’s ‘progress’, Google maps that show hotspots in a given locality, and mobile apps that help with contact-tracing. These …

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Pollution from cooking remains in atmosphere longer than previously believed

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Particulate emissions from cooking stay in the atmosphere for longer than previously thought, making a prolonged contribution to poor air quality and human health, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Birmingham succeeded in demonstrating how cooking emissions—which account for up to 10 percent of particulate pollution in the U.K.—are able to …

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