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The Brooks Bandits have switched leagues, but they continue to win. Tuesday afternoon, they defeated the Okotoks Oilers 5-4 in a game played in front of more than 2,000 people, many of them students taking a ‘hockey hooky day.’

With global warming no longer just a threat but a full-blown crisis, Columbia experts are on the frontlines, documenting the dangers and developing solutions.

 E-Mail A new study by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health researchers poses a hypothetical question: What if air quality improvements in New York City during the spring 2020 COVID-19 shutdown were sustained for five years without the economic and health costs of the pandemic? They estimate cumulative benefits of clean air during this period would amount to thousands of avoided cases of illness and death in children and adults, as well as associated economic benefits between $3...