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

Envirotec Magazine

A seemingly world-first study of daily ambient fine particulate matter ( PM 2.5 ) across the globe reports that only 0.18% of the global land area and 0.001% of the global population are exposed to levels of PM 2.5 – the world’s leading environmental health risk factor – below levels of safety recommended by Word Health Organization (WHO).

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Counting the microns

Envirotec Magazine

1 Only seven countries and three territories last year met World Health Organization pollution guidelines for fine particulate matter, according to the latest report by Swiss company IQ Air, published in March. From Monash University, in Melbourne, and published in March in The Lancet Planetary Health, this study looks at PM2.5

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Top 10 Women of Solar

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

in Maternal and Child Health from University of California, Berkeley. She is a DrPH candidate at UCB, as well as Associate Director of Emergency Obstetric Research in West Africa for the Bixby Center for Population Health and Sustainability. from University of California, San Francisco and an M.P.H.