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Air Pollution is Driving Health Inequalities in the South, Says New Report

A new report from Clean Air South says air pollution in the south of England could be further entrenching health inequalities, with those living in more deprived areas most affected.

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Coding for a Greener Internet

Karsten and his co-author, Computer Science grad student Peter Cai, realized that the way that data centres were processing network traffic was inefficient and devised a small change to make it far more efficient.

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Research on Past Hurricanes Aims to Reduce Future Risk

Tropical storms like hurricanes are not only terrifying, but also incredibly costly for coastal regions across the United States, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean.

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The Megadroughts Are Upon Us

Forty-year study: Extreme droughts will become more frequent, severe, and extensive.

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Inorganic and Biocatalysts Work Together to Reduce CO2

In a hybrid cascade, climate-damaging CO2 is turned back into valuable methanol. 

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Clouds Have a Surprising Effect on Surface Warming, McGill Climate Researchers Find

While greenhouse gases continue to cause temperatures to rise, a reduction in low-cloud cover over land serves as a natural brake: study.

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Unhealthy Skies over Los Angeles County

As people in Los Angeles went through the day on January 6, 2025, NASA’s TEMPO (Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution) sensor performed hourly east-to-west scans of North America. 

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From Lab to Field: CABBI Pipeline Delivers Oil-Rich Sorghum

Researchers at the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI) have developed a new sorghum variant that can outperform soybeans in oil production, with great potential as a clean source of renewable fuel.

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Technology for Oxidizing Atmospheric Methane Won’t Help the Climate

As the atmosphere continues to fill with greenhouse gases from human activities, many proposals have surfaced to “geoengineer” climate-saving solutions, that is, alter the atmosphere at a global scale to either reduce the concentrations of carbon or mute its warming effect.

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