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Air pollution: Clean up our skies

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  1. Julia Schmale was a science-policy project leader at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany, and is now at the Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland.,

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  2. Drew Shindell is professor of climate sciences at the Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.,

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  3. Erika von Schneidemesser is a project leader, Ilan Chabay is a senior fellow and Mark Lawrence is scientific director at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany.,

    Erika von Schneidemesser, Ilan Chabay & Mark Lawrence

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