Armed with good data, engineers wage quiet battle for cleaner air →
As countries wage war on climate change and pollution from vehicles, a little-known transport group is providing the ammunition. THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION
Read MoreHistory as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help save the future →
Calculating the patterns and cycles of the past could lead us to a better understanding of history. Could it also help us prevent a looming crisis? THE GUARDIAN
Read More'Scary mums' are part of the citizen war against pollution in Pakistan →
A growing wave of clean-air activists — including a group called the "Scary Mums," environmental lawyers, tech entrepreneurs and even foreign embassies — is using new sources of pollution data to pressure the government to take action. NPR
Read MoreFrom drones to social media, big data helps confront more complex disasters in Asia →
Technological innovations — from unique digital identities for drought-hit farmers to use of data from drones and social media — can better predict increasingly complex disasters in the Asia-Pacific region and limit their impact on vulnerable people, the United Nations said in a report on Thursday. REUTERS
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