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- Professor Prashant Kumar of Surrey’s Global Centre for Clean Air Research published a City and Environment Interactions study on UK parks.
- The research showed parks cut PM10 by 11 percent, lowered temperatures 6.5 percent, reduced noise 5.41 decibels, and decreased Physiologically Equivalent Temperature up to 8.5 °C versus streets.
- Measurements in Stoke Park, Guildford, Surrey found temperature rose more than 0.5 °C per 100 metres from the park edge, extending to 300 metres.
