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World Service,26 Sep 1996,13 mins

Combating City Traffic Pollution

Global Concerns

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The device that sucks the traffic pollution out of the air describe by its inventor Melvin Prueitt of the Los Alamos National Laboratory - and it generates electricity too. Also on the programme monitoring HFCs on the west coast of Ireland, how John Vanderplank brought a variety of passionflower back from the brink of extinction and the rediscovery of Edwards's pheasant in Vietnam.

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