Air pollution in China may have caused millions of deaths since 2000

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	Air pollution in China may have caused millions of deaths since 2000
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	2020-09-21
发布年	2020
语种	英语
国家	国际
领域	气候变化 ; 资源环境
正文(英文)	By Donna Lu Shenyang, Liaoning province, in 2014 JACKY CHEN/REUTERS Air pollution in China and Taiwan is estimated to have resulted in the premature deaths of 30.8 million adults since 2000. Yang Liu at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and his colleagues used satellite imagery to quantify the amount of air pollution over mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan between 2000 and 2016. The team used imagery taken by NASA satellites to estimate the concentrations of PM2.5 – particulate matter less than 2.5 micrometres in diameter. One measurement the satellite takes is the amount of sunlight that has been scattered or absorbed by …
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来源平台	NewScientist
文献类型	新闻
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/295099
专题	资源环境科学气候变化
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