The list brings companies like augmented reality pioneer Layar to a wider public and introduces Novomer, pollution chemistry, and Serious Materials, energy reduction.

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The publication was commissoned in conjunction with Surface Ocean - Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS), the International Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution (ICACGP), The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR).

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She also said there are great opportunities to help remedy the pollution situation -- in the field of green chemistry, for example.

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One young woman, Laurie Rumker, conducted a chemistry experiment to investigate ways to protect our water from pollution.

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This project makes use for the first time of high resolution simulations from a state-of-the-art regional atmospheric chemistry model to capture both urban and regional scale air pollution features.

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