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Almost nowhere on Earth safe from PM2.5, says Melbourne study

Envirotec Magazine

Calcutta, India: In southern Asia and eastern Asia, more than 90% of days had daily PM 2.5 concentrations at a high spatial resolution of approximately 10km ×10km for global grid cells in 2000-2019, focusing on areas above 15 μg/m³ which is considered the safe limit by WHO (The threshold is still arguable),” he said.

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Counting the microns

Envirotec Magazine

have reduced in Europe and North America in this period, while levels have increased in Southern Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Latin America and the Caribbean. The study noted that, In southern and eastern Asia, more than 90% of days had daily PM2.5 concentrations were distributed in the regions of Eastern Asia (50.0

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Revealed: How Development Banks Underwrote Fast Food’s Global Takeover

DeSmogBlog

A review of press accounts, financial disclosures, and the companies’ websites shows this support aided these firms’ KFC-linked operations in up to 13 countries in Asia, Africa, and Europe. In South Africa, the IFC helped one KFC supplier bolster its operations across the region. The EBRD sold its stake in the company in 2019.

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Mutual credit in Africa: interview with Will Ruddick of Grassroots Economics

Low Impact

And regular usage – about 2000 active traders per week. And some schemes in South Africa too? Do you think these ideas will spread more rapidly in Africa, Asia and Latin America? The post Mutual credit in Africa: interview with Will Ruddick of Grassroots Economics appeared first on Lowimpact.org. Is that right?

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New research reveals ‘megatrends’ that will affect forests in the next decade

Envirotec Magazine

Growing consumption and demand of commodities has already seen large scale corporate-led land acquisitions for industrial production of cattle, soy and palm oil in Latin America, Africa and Southeast Asia. Between 2001-2015, 27% of forest disturbance was attributed to commodity-driven deforestation. Use of digital technologies.

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Tipping Points In Tropical Forests: Carbon Fluxes In The Amazon And Africa

Energy Innovation

Figure 2: Modeled past and future carbon dynamics of structurally intact old-growth tropical forests in Africa and Amazonia. Model predictions are in blue (Africa) and brown (Amazon), with solid lines spanning the window when ?75 But why in the Amazon and not in Africa? Source: Hubau et al., Science Advances, 7(27), p.eabe9829.

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The disease after tomorrow

Grist

Historical range: Chikungunya fever was first identified in Tanzania in the 1950s, remained relatively rare for half a century, and then exploded into more than 60 countries throughout Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas after 2004. One study determined that cases in California rose 800 percent between 2000 and 2018.

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