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    "Department of Chemistry and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA",
    "David D. Parrish LLC, 4630 MacArthur Ln, Boulder, CO 80303, USA",
    "Department of Environment and Energy Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, Republic of Korea",
    "Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA",
    "Aerodyne Research Inc., Billerica, MA 01821, USA",
    "Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland",
    "Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences, University of Innsbruck, Innrain 52f, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria"
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  "title": "Tree selection in urban greening shapes air quality for global cities",
  "title_text": "Tree selection in urban greening shapes air quality for global cities",
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