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Thanks to a team of nine ASU students, families in Mongolia who rely on coal to heat their yurts can now breathe easier. The team invented a solar-powered air-filtration system that helps reduce smoke in the home. So far, 13 of the systems have been sent to the country to be dispersed by local partners.
When temperatures plummet in the Mongolian winter and households pile more coal onto their stoves to keep warm, Oyun-Erdene Navganjav’s concern grows for herself and her family. “It gets very cold and very smoky. There’s much more pollution and I worry about how much it is damaging the children’s health,” says the 30-year-old mother of three from her three-room brick home in the Bayankhoshuu subcenter on the southern outskirts of the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar. Oyun-Erdene is one of around 840,000 people who live in one of Mongolia’s so-called ger districts, unplanned neigh...