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Back in Black: Creating positive changes by focusing on a short-lived pollutant

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2011), and the World Health Organization has recommended evaluating a separate health standard for black carbon exposure independent of other particle concentration measurements (World Health Organization 2012). AMAP Assessment 2015: Black Carbon and Ozone as Arctic Climate Forcers.” Arctic Council. June 25, 2020. link] Brook Robert D.,

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Green on Top: Zoning Against Climate Change with Green-Roof Legislation

Vermont Law

As Catherine Malina wrote in a Georgetown International Environmental Law Review article in 2011, however, green-roof zoning laws could be effective and cost-efficient options to mitigate heat pollution from urban microclimates known as. Green-roofs buffer some stormwater, sequester carbon, and improve water quality. flood-prone regions.

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Nuclear War: The War Our Planet Won’t Survive

Vermont Law

START), signed by the United States and Russia in 2011, limits these two countries to only 1,550 strategic nuclear warheads each deployed on 700 long-rage delivery systems. A potential 20 to 50 percent ozone loss over populated areas, and decrease in global precipitation, would cause a nuclear famine. An initial drop of 1.25

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