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Why Does Chile Have Such Bad Air Pollution?

Carlos Chavez discusses the use of wood-burning stoves for home heating and policies to alleviate problems with indoor air pollution in Chile.

July 13, 2020
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How Female Entrepreneurs Can Light Up Rural Rwanda

Rebecca Klege finds that female energy entrepreneurs are more successful than male entrepreneurs in Rwanda.

May 19, 2020
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New Research Finds a Link Between Fires, Children’s Health and Gross Domestic Product

Prachi Singh finds a significant correlation between low weight and low height ratios and exposure to this pollution.

April 30, 2020
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Why Don’t More People Use Clean Cookstoves?

For years, the global development community has struggled over the problem of dirty burning cookstoves.

April 16, 2020
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Podcast: A Small Green Idea to Power Rural Nepal

As Subhrendu Pattanayak and a group of researchers from Duke University navigate narrow catwalks high into the Annapurna mountain range in the Himalayas, they begin to understand first-hand the difficulties of establishing any set infrastructure in such difficult terrain.

March 20, 2019
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