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Environment
Pakistan closes primary school in Lahore due to record pollution
Pakistan’s Lahore city has closed its elementary school for a week due to record levels of pollution. Lahore, Pakistan’s second-largest city, will close primary schools for a week due to record pollution, government officials said Sunday, to avoid exposing millions of children to smog several times above dangerous levels. announced for. For days, the city of 14 million people has…
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Other Sciences
“Extreme Citizen Science” — High school students promoted to real researchers for motivation and environmental monitoring
High school students collecting water samples. Credit: Frederik Wolff Nisbeth Teglhus In addition to assisting with sample collection and butterfly discovery for research projects, non-experts can now perform actual laboratory work alongside professional researchers. The University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with a Danish high school, has shown that “Extreme Citizen Science” not only increases students’ interest in science, but also…
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