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In the Media: Brick Kiln Solutions

Research finds use for AI in tracking polluting brick kilns
May 10, 2021 | Dhaka Tribune
Features Woods-funded project to use machine learning to track pollutive brick kilns.
Illegal Brick Kilns in Bangladesh
April 27, 2021 | BBC Digital Planet
BBC Digital Planet interviews (starting at 20:52) former Stanford researcher about Woods-funded project that uses AI to identify illegal polluters.
Brick kilns top polluter
February 14, 2019 | Daily Star
DoE air pollution survey finds N'ganj most polluted; air quality of 7 cities 'severely unhealthy'
boy in front of smoke stacks
Bangladesh’s Air Pollution Problem Grows, Brick by Brick
September 5, 2018 | Undark
Though only a small part of the nation’s GDP, brickmaking plays an outsized role in the spread of air pollution — and disease — in Dhaka and beyond.
Stephen Luby
Bangladesh Brick Sector Transformation Stakeholders Workshop Held
March 1, 2018 | BRAC RED Update
Workshop brings togther experts and stakeholders to to develop a shared understanding of current regulatory and technological context of brick-making... Read More
Researchers Aim to Clean up South Asia's Dirty Kilns
October 18, 2017 | Voice of America
Stanford researcher Steve Luby is quoted in Voice of America's coverage of air pollution and related health effects caused by brick kilns.
Stanford Researchers Aim to Promote Cleaner Technologies in Brick Kiln Industry
September 15, 2017 | AZO CleanTech
AZO CleanTech reports on Stanford researchers efforts to address air pollution-related health problems caused by brickmaking kilns in South Asian... Read More
What are we breathing in?
January 9, 2017
A crowdsourced air pollution measurement programme reported a spike in the amount of particulates in Dhaka’s air yesterday morning, a level that was... Read More
Precious topsoil burnt for bricks
January 26, 2016 | Daily Star
Farmers forced to sell it to kiln owners, resulting in loss of agricultural productivity