Transboundary Atmospheric Pollution from Mountaintop Coal Mining
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Science and Technology Letters
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2328-8930']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.2c00677