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Scientists make up the bulk of the other award winners: Dee Boersma, a marine biologist at the University of Washington who found that the effects of climate change force penguins in Antarctica to swim 25 extra miles for food, putting them in greater danger of extinction. Ashok Gadgil, an environmental engineer at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, won for inventing simple, inexpensive water-purification systems and stoves for use in the developing world. Kirk Smith, a scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, was recognized for his work connecting indoor air pollution - mostly from cooking - to the premature death...
...officials do not want air pollution to detract from the event. The researchers of the study—which is being published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters—are affiliated with the China Project, which is part of the Harvard University Center for the Environment. K. Folkert Boersma, another post-doctoral fellow who worked on the report, stressed the importance of new satellite technologies in collecting data on Beijing’s environment over the three-day period of vehicle restrictions. Because of their precision, the newest satellites could eventually be used to track global pollution, Boersma said...