COVID-19 Air Quality Report
<p>Coinciding with the 50th anniversary ofEarth Day, this report investigates the impact COVID-19 lockdowns have had on global particulate pollution levels.As lockdowns were implemented in response to
New York
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Carry on doctor
Kwasi Odoi Agyarko is glad that the United Nations has honoured him. This Ghanaian doctor has been bestowed with the un Population Award for his contribution to increasing awareness about
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Bloated cities
The world's cities are burgeoning. Fifty years ago, New York was the only metropolis with a population of more than10 million. Today there are 19 such cities. At present, some three billion people
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Failing to freeze
In the past 30 years, not even a single lake in the New York state had failed to freeze unless it was an El Ni
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Role reversal
Anti HIV drugs can mutate the genes of an embryo
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Making bureaucracy work
India has two problems; one, bureaucrats and their complicated procedures and two, politicians who do not understand bureaucrats and their complicated procedures <br>
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Greening for good?
Global warming increases vegetation cover in the Northern Hemisphere
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Welcome signals
New York moves towards making pesticide warning flags mandatory
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Harnessing wind
madison town in New York has been chosen as the site for a new project to harness wind power for producing electricity. Estimated to cost us $16-million, the project has been undertaken
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Fighting mosquitoes
not malathion the pesticide, but the fish Gambusia affinis will be used this year by the New York City administration to fight mosquitoes. Health commissioner Neal L Cohen said the city
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Surprise weapon
Oil from summer cypress can combat West Nile virus