Monday, September 30, 2024

Journal Article - Natural emissions of VOC and NOx over Africa constrained by TROPOMI HCHO and NO2 data using the MAGRITTEv1.1 model

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Journal Article - Chemistry and deposition in the Model of Atmospheric composition at Global and Regional scales using Inversion Techniques for Trace gas Emissions (MAGRITTE v1.1) – Part 1: Chemical mechanism

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Journal Article - Chemistry and deposition in the Model of Atmospheric composition at Global and Regional scales using Inversion Techniques for Trace gas Emissions (MAGRITTE v1.0). Part B. Dry deposition

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Data Resource - AVENGERS - Attributing and Verifying European and National Greenhouse Gas and Aerosol Emissions and Reconciliation with Statistical Bottom-up Estimates

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Sunday, September 29, 2024

Infographic - What is AQI?

 
What AQI does is unification of all the complicated science of pollution composition, exposure rate based health severity, ambient standards, and measurement and standard protocols, into simple color coded bins for everyone to see how good or bad or ugly the pollution levels are and understand the necessary alertness. 
 
More such questions are answered in SIM-series # 46-2021 - 10 frequently asked questions on Air Quality Index (AQI)

Journal Article - Analysis of the spatiotemporal changes in global tropospheric ozone concentrations from 1980 to 2020

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Journal Article - High-Resolution Daily PM2.5 Exposure Concentrations in South Korea Using CMAQ Data Assimilation with Surface Measurements and MAIAC AOD (2015–2021)

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Journal Article - South America is becoming warmer, drier, and more flammable

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Journal Article - Achieving deep transport energy demand reductions in the United Kingdom

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Journal Article - Air pollution inequality and its temporal trends in Nordic countries

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Saturday, September 28, 2024

Journal Article - Assessing the effectiveness of SO2, NOx, and NH3 emission reductions in mitigating winter PM2.5 in Taiwan using CMAQ

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Journal Article - The co-benefits of a low-carbon future for PM2.5 and O3 air pollution in Europe

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Journal Article - Long-term exposure to wildland fire smoke PM2.5 and mortality in the contiguous United States

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Op-Ed - How the UK became the first G7 country to phase out coal power

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Op-Ed - Europe’s Heat Pumps Put America’s to Shame

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Podcast - Will Carbon Capture Make Local Air Pollution Worse?

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Op-Ed - Partially autonomous cars forecast to comprise 10% of new vehicle sales by 2030

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Friday, September 27, 2024

Journal Article - Toward monitoring daily anthropogenic CO2 emissions with air pollution sensors from space

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Journal Article - Ammonia emission estimates using CrIS satellite observations over Europe

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Journal Article - Long-Range Transport of Aerosols and Regional Sources Using MODIS and NASA MERRA Reanalysis Over South Asia

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Journal Article - Between and within-city variations of PM2.5 oxidative potential in five cities in Colombia

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Op-Ed - Air pollution, not plankton responsible for change in Alaskan atmosphere

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Op-Ed - Shifting perspectives: from clean air to healthy air

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Op-Ed - The world is burning an alarming amount of plastic, scientists say

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Op-Ed - Oil pollution in UK waters far worse than reported, says conservation group

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Video - Green energy: Which sources are the most sustainable?

Op-Ed - How can the world’s energy be decarbonised?

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Op-Ed - Create ‘positive tipping points’ with climate mandates, governments urged

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Op-Ed - The EPA funded citizen science to address gaps in air monitoring. Will it result in cleaner air?

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Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Op-Ed - Changing With Our Climate

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Journal Article - The Methane Imperative

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Op-Ed - Net-zero targets are everywhere. But to be effective, they need accountability

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Journal Article - Impact of the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown on the concentration of non-methane volatile organic compounds in a UK urban atmosphere

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Op-Ed - China’s carbon market to cover steel, aluminium and cement in 2024

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Op-Ed - Where do we stash the equivalent of 110 Sydney harbour bridges? That’s the conundrum Australia faces as oil and gas rigs close

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Op-Ed - The secret ingredient in Biden’s climate law? City trees

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Op-Ed - London Low-Emissions Zone Prompts Shift to Active Modes

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Op-Ed - The Risks of Self-Fulfilling Travel Forecasts

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Op-Ed - UK Met Office launches Air Quality Data Portal

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Op-Ed - Is recycling beyond fixing? Here’s why California thinks so.

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Op-Ed - Is plastic the biggest climate threat?

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Op-Ed - Climate Change goes SkyNet. Bigger computers, more power, to ‘make decisions’ for us.

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Op-Ed - A break from the heat’: Americans most affected by climate crisis head midwest

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Op-Ed - As Earth’s Climate Unravels, More Scientists Are Ready to Test Geoengineering

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Op-Ed - Six charts help to explain 2024’s freakish temperatures

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Op-Ed - Recovering rare earth elements from coal ash for clean energy technologies

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Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Journal Article - Health risks of climate change in Australia: An umbrella review

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Thesis - Developing Modeling Capabilities to Assess Health Outcomes From Air Pollution

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Journal Article - Development of a merged NO2 climate data record from GOME-2 instruments

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Journal Article - Five principles for robust carbon dioxide removal policy in the G7

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Journal Article - Well-planned greenery improves air urban quality - modelling the effect of altered airflow and pollutant deposition

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Op-Ed - The Carbon Brief Interview: Adam McKay

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Op-Ed - The forgotten role of logistics in achieving net-zero

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Infograph - Charted: 150 Years of Corn, Wheat, and Soy Yields in America

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Podcast - The Carbon Brief Interview: Adam McKay

Sunday, September 22, 2024

Journal Article - Air pollution and solar photovoltaic power generation: Evidence from South Korea

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Journal Article - Long-term MAX-DOAS measurements of NO2, HCHO, and aerosols and evaluation of corresponding satellite data products over Mohali in the Indo-Gangetic Plain

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Journal Article - Season-wise analyses of VOCs, hydroxyl radicals and ozone formation chemistry over north-west India reveal isoprene and acetaldehyde as the most potent ozone precursors throughout the year

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Journal Article - Evolution of ozone formation regimes during different periods in representative regions of China

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Journal Article - Insights into the long-term (2005–2021) spatiotemporal evolution of summer ozone production sensitivity in the Northern Hemisphere derived with the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI)

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Journal Article - Assessment of the impact of NO2 contribution on aerosol-optical-depth measurements at several sites worldwide

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Journal Article - Source contribution to ozone pollution during June 2021 in Arizona: Insights from WRF-Chem tagged O3 and CO

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Journal Article - Estimating the variability of NOx emissions from Wuhan with TROPOMI NO2 data during 2018 to 2023

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Journal Article - The monitoring network of greenhouse gas (CO2, CH4) in the Paris' region

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Journal Article - A Python toolkit for integrating geographic information system into regulatory dispersion models for refined pollution modeling

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Journal Article - Comparison of CAMS and CMAQ analyses of surface-level PM2.5 and O3 over the conterminous United States (CONUS)

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Journal Article - Carbon dioxide emissions from global overseas coal-fired power plants

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Humor in Pollution - Sluggish Fish Due to Climate Change

Video - What is climate sensitivity?

Saturday, September 21, 2024

Op-Ed - RFF in Focus: Priorities for Climate Policy

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Journal Article - Spatially explicit analysis of production and consumption responsibility for the PM2.5-related health burden towards beautiful China

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Journal Article - Biomass burning sources control ambient particulate matter but traffic and industrial sources control VOCs and secondary pollutant formation during extreme pollution events in Delhi

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Journal Article - Emission reductions during COVID-19 enhance marine heatwave over the North Pacific in spring 2020

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Journal Article - Exploring the Trends of Aerosol Optical Depth and Its Relationship with Climate Variables over Saudi Arabia

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Journal Article - Sensitivity of predicted ultrafine particle size distributions in Europe to different nucleation rate parameterizations using PMCAMx-UF v2.2

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Journal Article - Efficacy of China’s clean air actions to tackle PM2.5 pollution between 2013 and 2020

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Journal Article - Rising atmospheric levels of fine particulate matter reduce the degree of linear polarisation of light

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Journal Article - Air Quality Sensor Experts Convene: Current Quality Assurance Considerations for Credible Data

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Journal Article - Satellite-based estimates of decline and rebound in China’s CO2 emissions during COVID-19 pandemic

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Video - Reasons for the Seasons

Op-Ed - How Saharan dust provides a boost for oceanic life

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Op-Ed - Can We Please Have More Science and Less Propaganda?

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Op-Ed - The Math Does Not Support New York’s Climate Plan

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Friday, September 20, 2024

Podcast - Not built for This (99% Invisible, Climate Change Series)

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Journal Article - Fifteen Pathways between Electric Vehicles and Public Health: A Transportation–Health Conceptual Framework

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Journal Article - Large-Scale Climate Features Control Fire Emissions and Transport in Africa

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Journal Article - Estimating future climate change impacts on human mortality and crop yields via air pollution

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Journal Article - Monthly Characteristics and Source–Receptor Relationships of Anthropogenic Total Nitrate in Northeast Asia

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Journal Article - Unveiling urban air quality dynamics during COVID-19: a Sentinel-5P TROPOMI hotspot analysis

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Journal Article - New NOx and NO2 vehicle emission curves, and their implications for emissions inventories and air pollution modelling

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Journal Article - There is no economic case for new coal plants in India

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Op-Ed - Urban planning is often overlooked as a career – here are some ways to change that

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Op-Ed - Data Center Emissions Far Outpace Tech Company Claims

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Op-Ed - Scientists have captured Earth’s climate over the last 485 million years. Here’s the surprising place we stand now

An effort to understand Earth’s past climates uncovered a history of wild temperature shifts and offered a warning on the consequences of human-caused warming.

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Op-Ed - ‘Red Flags’ on Climate: U.S. Methane Emissions Keep Climbing

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Op-Ed - The Hidden Environmental Costs of Food

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Op-Ed - Sweden cuts tax on flying despite admitting it would increase emissions

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Op-Ed - Can the voluntary carbon market save the Amazon?

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Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Op-Ed - Is Your Commute Harming Your Health?

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Humor in Pollution - Sea Ice - Now You Don't - A Green Humour Collection

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Journal Article - Role of Organic Vapor Precursors in Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation: Concurrent Observations of IVOCs and VOCs in Guangzhou

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Journal Article - The global drivers of wildfire

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Book - Combating Air Pollution - Comparisons between Delhi and Mexico City

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Op-Ed - Norway is now the world’s first to have more EVs than gas-powered cars

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Op-Ed - Fossil fuel companies sponsor $5.6bn in global ‘sportswashing’ deals

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Op-Ed - The Arctic Seed Vault Shows the Flawed Logic of Climate Adaptation

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Op-Ed - Why any estimate of the cost of climate change will be flawed

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Monday, September 16, 2024

Video - Climate 101: Ozone Depletion | National Geographic

Inforgraph - Know your air pollutants - Ozone

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Video - Getting Traction with Communicating Air Quality Data

Journal Article - Why communicating air quality information in the simplest form gets more people to understand and get involved in the fight against air pollution

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Journal Article - Multi-year observations of variable incomplete combustion in the New York megacity

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Journal Article - National, satellite-based land-use regression models for estimating long-term annual NO2 exposure across India

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Journal Article - Evaluation of WRF-Chem PM2.5 simulations in Thailand with different anthropogenic and biomass-burning emissions

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Journal Article - Characterization and source identification of PM2.5 during intense haze episodes in an urban environment of Lahore

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Journal Article - Regional source contributions to summertime ozone in the Yangtze River Delta

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Sunday, September 15, 2024

Op-Ed - U.K. to Fund ‘Small-Scale’ Outdoor Geoengineering Tests

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Op-Ed - An ‘Unidentified Seismic Object’ Shook Earth for Nine Days—Now We Know What It Was

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Journal Article - Strategies to reduce air pollution emissions from urban residential buildings

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Journal Article - PM2.5 concentrations based on near-surface visibility in the Northern Hemisphere from 1959 to 2022

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Journal Article - Quantifying the impact of urban trees on air quality in Geneva, Switzerland

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Journal Article - The impact of ammonia on particle formation in the Asian Tropopause Aerosol Layer

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Saturday, September 14, 2024

Journal Article - Ambitious nitrogen abatement is required to mitigate future global PM2.5 air pollution toward the World Health Organization targets

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Journal Article - High-resolution geospatial database: national criteria-air-pollutant concentrations in the contiguous U.S., 2016 – 2020

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Op-Ed - This Fire Is Too Close to L.A. for Comfort

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Op-Ed - 2024's unusually persistent warmth

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Op-Ed - Shift to EVs a challenge in India’s gated communities

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Op-Ed - China’s falling iron ore demand is only half the story

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Op-Ed - How a UK government-backed company has fuelled gas power in Africa

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Op-Ed - Great Album Covers with Urban Planning Themes

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Op-Ed - Calls for a voucher scheme to give fairer access to cycling

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Op-Ed - Bath’s Clean Air Zone drives down NO2 by 32%

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Op-Ed - Sport is getting hotter, harder and deadlier

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Thursday, September 12, 2024

Journal Article - CO2 emission characteristics of China VI hybrid vehicles

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Journal Article - Statistical corruption in Beijing's air quality data has likely ended in 2012

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Journal Article - A real-time assessment of hazardous atmospheric pollutants across cities in China and India

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Journal Article - Impacts of different vehicle emissions on ozone levels in Beijing: Insights into source contributions and formation processes

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Op-Ed - Scientists Will Engineer the Ocean to Absorb More Carbon Dioxide

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Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Op-Ed - Small-to-medium scale industries emerging as key growth drivers for India’s natural gas consumption

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Resource Material - Q&A: Why methane levels are rising with no ‘hint of a decline’

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Op-Ed - It’s a big deal if Australia and the Pacific are chosen to host UN climate talks. Here’s why

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Op-Ed - Opinion: Cars Have F@#%ed Up This Country So Bad

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Op-Ed - ‘Flight shame is dead’: concern grows over climate impact of tourism boom

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Monday, September 09, 2024

Op-Ed - Atlantic Hurricane Lull Puzzles Scientists

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Op-Ed - We Must Secure Our Future in a Hotter, More Dangerous World

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Op-Ed - In Germany, The Energy Transition Situation Only Gets Worse

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Journal Article - Methane Emissions Monitoring Using Geostationary Satellites

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Journal Article - Seasonal biogenic volatile organic compound emission factors in temperate tree species: Implications for emission estimation and ozone formation

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Journal Article - An Unusual Winter Ozone Event in Colorado

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Sunday, September 08, 2024

Journal Article - Historical air pollutant emissions and future sustainable pathways of global cement plants

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Journal Article - Opinion: The Impact of AerChemMIP on Climate and Air Quality Research

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Journal Article - The impact of LPG consumption on cooking energy efficiency: Evidence from rural Indian household panel data

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Journal Article - Effectiveness of Precursor Emission Reductions for the Control of Summertime Ozone and PM2.5 in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Region under Different Meteorological Conditions

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Op-Ed - C40 Mayors write ‘Letters to Air’

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Op-Ed - New tech can make air-conditioning less harmful to the planet

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Saturday, September 07, 2024

Journal Article - Does the electricity vehicle promotion policy drive Thailand's passenger transport towards environmental sustainability?

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Journal Article - Study of aerosols over the southern region of Pakistan using satellite, reanalysis and model data

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Journal Article - Fine particulate matter and ozone variability with regional and local meteorology in Beijing, China

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Journal Article - Development of Wet Scavenging Process of Particles in Air Quality Modeling

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Op-Ed - Australia has just been handed a map for getting to net zero. Here’s how it will guide us

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Op-Ed - How Cities Are Getting Creative To Reclaim Public Space for People

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Op-Ed - Report calls for gaps in global air quality data to be filled

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Op-Ed - Simple steps to stop people dying from heatwaves

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Friday, September 06, 2024

Infographic - Global Coal Consumption by Region

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Infographic - The World’s Carbon Emissions from Energy Production

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Video - Prospects for reduced emissions using clean ammonia | ICSC Webinars

Journal Article - The urban air quality nexus: Assessing the interplay of land cover change and air pollution in emerging South Asian cities

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Journal Article - The heat-mortality association in Jordan: Effect modification by greenness, population density and urbanization level

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Journal Article - Simulation of hydrogen transportation development path and carbon emission reduction path based on LEAP model - A case study of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region

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Journal Article - Modelling of atmospheric variability of gas and aerosols during the ACROSS campaign 2022 in the greater Paris area: evaluation of the meteorology, dynamics and chemistry

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Journal Article - Recommendations on benchmarks for photochemical air quality model applications in China — NO2, SO2, CO and PM10

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Journal Article - Recommendations on benchmarks for chemical transport model applications in China – Part 2: Ozone and Uncertainty Analysis

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Journal Article - PM2.5 estimation and its relationship with NO2 and SO2 in China from 2016 to 2020

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Journal Article - Rapid PM2.5-Induced Health Impact Assessment: A Novel Approach Using Conditional U-Net CMAQ Surrogate Model

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Journal Article - Spatiotemporally Detailed Quantification of Air Quality Benefits of Emissions Reductions–Part I: Benefit-per-Ton Estimates for Canada and the U.S

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Op-Ed - Pedestrians First: Tools for a Walkable City

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Op-Ed - The world is burning an alarming amount of plastic

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Op-Ed - Solar Farms Have a Superpower Beyond Clean Energy

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Op-Ed - Petrol Cars “Rationed to Meet Net Zero Targets”

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Op-Ed - European Union Climate Policy, Dam Removals, and More

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Op-Ed - How Africans can stay cool as the climate warms -- Air-conditioning is only part of the answer

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Wednesday, September 04, 2024

Journal Article - Mapping seamless monthly XCO2 in East Asia: Utilizing OCO-2 data and machine learning

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Resource Material - Second warmest July ends a 13-month record streak

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Op-Ed - The Social Cost of Carbon: Reaching a New Estimate

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Op-Ed - Trends in Extreme Weather, Where Disasters Strike, and More

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Op-Ed - Just 15 countries account for 98% of new coal-power development

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Op-Ed - Climate change has deep historical roots – Amitav Ghosh explores how capitalism and colonialism fit in

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Op-Ed - Half of Uber, Lyft Trips Replace More Sustainable Options

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Op-Ed - Retrofitting Buses: The fast route to cleaner air and electrification

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Op-Ed - America’s New Climate Delusion

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Op-Ed - Why landslides are suddenly tearing homes apart in Southern California

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Op-Ed - Renewables: Are They Really Cheaper?

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Op-Ed - Storm Watch: Trends in Extreme US Weather Events

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Op-Ed - UK’s methane hotspots include landfills and last coalmine

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Op-Ed - The thermodynamics of electric vs. internal combustion cars

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Video - Volkswagen to Shut German Plants for the 1st Time in its 87-yr History

Tuesday, September 03, 2024

Journal Article - Description and validation of Vehicular Emissions from Road Traffic (VERT) 1.0, an R-based framework for estimating road transport emissions from traffic flows

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Journal Article - Health impact assessment of port-sourced air pollution in Barcelona

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Op-Ed - How one company’s plan to help the planet went off the rails

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Op-Ed - We mapped weather forecast accuracy across the U.S. Look up your city

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Op-Ed - Making sense of global Air Quality Indexes

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Op-Ed - UAH Global Temperature Update for August, 2024: +0.88 deg. C

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Op-Ed - China is itching to mine the ocean floor

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Monday, September 02, 2024

Journal Article - Impact of improved representation of volatile organic compound emissions and production of NOx reservoirs on modeled urban ozone production

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Journal Article - Building blocks of change: The energy, health, and climate co-benefits of more efficient brickmaking in Bangladesh

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Journal Article - Constraining Present-Day Anthropogenic Total Iron Emissions Using Model and Observations

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Op-Ed - Dynamic evolution of particulate and gaseous emissions for typical residential coal combustion

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Op-Ed - Clean energy’s next trillion-dollar business

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Op-Ed - As the weight of your car increases, the risk of killing others increases

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Sunday, September 01, 2024

Journal Article - Sustainable Urban Transportation in India

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Journal Article - Health co-benefits of post-COVID-19 low-carbon recovery in Chinese cities

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Journal Article - Short-term exposure to fine particulate pollution and elderly mortality in Chile

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Journal Article - Carbon emissions from the 2023 Canadian wildfires

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Journal Article - Impacts of current and climate induced changes in atmospheric stagnation on Indian surface PM2.5 pollution

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Op-Ed - Indonesia’s clean energy sector pins hopes on new regime as ‘ambivalent’ incumbents exit

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Op-Ed - Designing Cooler Cities: Lessons from Ancient Civilizations

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Op-Ed - Planting trees can have immediate health benefits

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Op-Ed - AI is Driving Corporations to Abandon Climate Commitments

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Op-Ed - Offshore Trojan Horses

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Humor in Pollution - Modern Metropolises vs. Anthills