Natural Resources

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Air Polution

• Effect of air pollution on health care expenditure: Evidence from respiratory diseases (2-8-21)
• Air pollution contributes to thousands of heart, lung related hospitalizations yearly, study finds (2-22-21)
• 8.7 million people a year die from fossil fuel pollution More than 60% of the deaths occur in China and India. (2-9-21)

Land Use

• A former Reddit CEO is turning arid land into robust forests. Here’s how to scale it globally (2-18-21)

Water

• Flint Michigan Story on Lead in Water – 60 minutes 3-15-20 – how AI could have triggered early warnings.