How Live-Tweeting Air Pollution Data Is Saving Lives

The savings in lives and money would be enormous

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if cities provided their residents with up-to-date information about air pollution.

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Air pollution in Beijing was particularly bad in 2008.

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The US embassy in the city has a new monitor that can provide real-time readings of ozone and PM2.5

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Then it started doing something seemingly insignificant

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if one study is to be believed, has had far-reaching consequences throughout the world.

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The embassy has begun tweeting the particle readings every hour

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