Tag Archives: air quality

Unusually Bad Air Quality in North Carolina

Posted on 2016-11-16 by Brian Magi

Many communities in western North Carolina and in the Queen City of Charlotte have been and continue to be impacted by smoke pollution from fires on the eastern side of the Appalachian Mountains near Lake Lure and South Mountain State … Continue reading →

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Life expectancy reductions in the polluted air of China

Posted on 2013-07-10 by Brian Magi

Shockingly little has been published in the peer-reviewed literature about the air pollution in China, although there has been plenty of press coverage. I talked a little bit about the US Embassy twitter data and how fires polluted the air … Continue reading →

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Beijing air quality and agricultural fires

Posted on 2013-06-28 by Brian Magi

As I browsed through my favorite twitter feeds which includes @BeijingAir and the other US Embassies, I saw there was some really really poor air quality in Beijing. The US Embassies in China tweet particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5) concentrations in … Continue reading →

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Twitter and science

Posted on 2013-06-14 by Brian Magi

I’ve been starting to use twitter – mainly to supplement my research interests. I have zero confidence in facebook as a useful platform for anything remotely scientific or supportive of science, but twitter somehow seems different. The first twitter account … Continue reading →

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