Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2022

A first-of-its-kind national study appears to find that previously frozen winter nutrient pollution — unlocked by rising winter temperatures and rainfall — is putting water quality at risk in 40% of the US main landmass, including over 40 states. That’s a big problem that urgently needs addressing.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2020

A team led by environmental physicist Stefan Schreier at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences in Vienna is attempting to build up a better picture of nitrogen dioxide pollution in the city. The group is using MAX-DOAS instruments mounted on top of buildings to build a more accurate map of pollutant distribution.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 20, 2020

People living in polluted cities are more at risk from Covid-19, according to health experts cited in a 16 March report from the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA), an advocacy group. Even the latest diesel engines emit dangerous levels of pollution. The European Respiratory Society (ERS) is an EPHA member.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

Catching a big blue barrel floating on the ocean surface in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch from the German research vessel SONNE during expedition SO268/3 crossing the North Pacific Ocean from Vancouver to Singapore in summer, 2019 (image credit: ©Roman Kroke UFZ). A poorly reversible pollutant of remote areas of the environment.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2022

Common air pollutants from both urban and rural environments may be reducing the pollinating abilities of insects by preventing them from sniffing out the crops and wildflowers that depend on them, new research seems to show. The theory is that the pollutants react with and change the scents of flowers, making them harder to find.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 18, 2021

Explosive new QC legal opinion suggests estate agents, property websites, surveyors and conveyancers are now legally obliged to inform prospective buyers and renters of air pollution levels. Firm offering free air pollution rating system for every UK address, using 1.5 billion data points generated by Imperial College London.

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Charged

MARCH 30, 2023

Now a team of researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC have begun to document the actual respiratory impact of EV adoption in a study that uses real-world data to link electric cars, air pollution and health. per 1,000 people between 2013 and 2019. On average, the number of ZEVs in the region studied increased from 1.4

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2020

The Pollution Pavillion was designed in collaboration with artists Climate and Cities and King’s College London. Four out of five Britons are worried that UK air pollution limits don’t match WHO guidelines. pollution particles. • pollution. Nearly every area of the capital breaches WHO guidelines for PM2.5

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 27, 2022

The scientists say that enriching waters with particular species of bacteria could be a natural way to remove plastic pollution from the environment. The effect is pronounced: the rate of bacterial growth more than doubled when plastic pollution raised the overall carbon level in lake water by just 4%.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 15, 2022

A new Stanford University-led study seems to reveal that removing one thing in particular – a common air pollutant – could lead to dramatic gains in crop yields. Nitrogen oxides, or NOx, are among the most widely emitted pollutants in the world. A NOx-ious problem. Image credit: Lobell, et al. Science Advances.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

On 7 September Southern Water announced “a comprehensive plan” that it claimed demonstrated its commitment to reducing pollution incidents and helping to improve the environment. Our plan of activities aims to deliver zero pollution incidents by 2040.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

The ULEZ was first introduced in central London in 2019 in a bid to improve air quality, before the Mayor, Sadiq Khan, further expanded the zone two years later to encompass all areas of inner London within the North and South Circular roads. The evidence from this landmark report is clear - the ULEZ works," he said. "It

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 7, 2023

Importantly while daily levels have reduced in Europe and North America in the two decades to 2019, levels have increased in Southern Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Latin America and the Caribbean, with more than 70% of days globally seeing levels above what is safe. exposed days globally, by 2019 more than 70% of days still had PM 2.5

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2020

Air pollution is not a new problem in the UK – the London smog of 1952 killed 12,000 people. Since then, the effects of climate change, major industry and lifestyle changes have altered the air that we breathe, for example, coal-burning has dramatically declined, while increased road transport has led to new air pollutants.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

MayoFree, based out of Moscow since its 2019 launch, specializes in creative advertising, social projects and video-content production. Using these strengths, the team collaborated with non-profit eco-movement RosEco and Chiveskella, an ec?-activist activist fashion brand by upcycle-designer Nikolay Voznesensky, to produce Trash Camo.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Water companies can expect increasing scrutiny into their environmental performance, Isle’s Zero Pollutions Conference heard. This was among messages from Helen Wakeham, deputy director of water quality at the Environment Agency, during a keynote address at the Zero Pollutions Conference 2020, hosted by technology consultancy Isle.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

It attempts a snapshot of air pollution exposure in over 7000 cities worldwide, and its impact on health. and NO2 pollution, with fine particles seeming to be an affliction of the world’s poorer regions especially, while NO2 is a problem for city dwellers everywhere. over 2010-2019. Between NO2 and PM2.5, Where PM2.5

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Grist

JUNE 10, 2022

Almost 2,000 times more particle pollution is produced by tire wear than is pumped out of the exhausts of modern cars, tests have shown. Air pollution causes millions of early deaths a year globally. Tailpipes are now so clean for pollutants that, if you were starting out afresh, you wouldn’t even bother regulating them.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 2, 2024

A couple of recent studies attempt to document the changing profile of this pollutant, and its prevalence in different regions of the world. exposure, for which the upper limit is 500 µg/m 3 – which adds perspective to New Delhi’s lung-rupturing 900 µg/m3 levels recorded in late 2019. guideline in IQ AIr’s analysis.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 24, 2023

Diane Wilson, a fourth-generation South Texas shrimper who took on a multi-billion dollar corporate polluter in court and won, has received a 2023 Goldman Prize for environmental activism. Her remarkable achievement and ongoing commitment to fighting plastic pollution demonstrates the power of grassroots action to create concrete change.”

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2020

The changing state of particulate pollution (PM2.5) around the world is revealed by IQ Air’s latest World Air Quality Report, and its most polluted cities ranking. pollution hotspots. levels in 2019, after a 12% decrease in 2018. This year, Beijing dropped out of the ranking’s top 200 most polluted cities. •

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2024

Emissions from UK flights rose 23 per cent last year, putting at risk government goals to cap pollution at 2019 levels

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

The fashion industry has been accused of being "blind" to the risks of water pollution by a new report from investor-backed environmental disclosure platform CDP. Yet, of 136 businesses whose investors requested impact assessments on water pollution, only 62 - or 46 per cent - provided data in 2019.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Smog Armor is an exciting, new environmentally friendly paint brand that has created a solution to tackle and eliminate indoor air pollution by adding a mineral that actively purifies the air wherever the paint is used. The post Smog Armor – The Power to Reduce Indoor Air Pollution appeared first on Green Business Bureau.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

For Edna Ibarra, it was the realization that with every breath her 11-year-old son was breathing in a little more of an industrial carcinogen that drove her to get involved in the fight against air pollution in Laredo, Texas. If these three pollutants were eliminated,” the Intercept reported, “only one census tract in the U.S.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

London Mayor calls for increased air pollution measures as new analysis reveals that London school children are four times more likely to be exposed to PM2.5. in 2019 indicates 3.1 helping to cut the number of schools located in areas with illegal levels of nitrogen dioxide by 97 per cent, from 455 schools in 2016 to 14 in 2019.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2021

The government could yet again find itself in court over dangerous levels of air pollution, with the latest official data showing the UK is on track to miss legal targets for four out of five pollutants covered by a crucial piece of clean air legislation, ClientEarth has warned.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 18, 2022

The study was completed in 2019. Table 1 (below) shows the biggest waste polluters worldwide, and per capita quantities for total waste generated, recycled, incinerated, landfilled, and disposed of illegally (click to enlarge). In fact, as recently as 2019, no waste at all was recycled in Turkey. No other country recycles less.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

England's water industry continues to face serious questions over its environmental record, with many firms still failing to live up to their regulatory responsibilities governing sewage spills and pollution incidents, according to the Environment Agency's (EA) latest assessment of the sector today.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 14, 2022

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has published its Scottish Pollutant Release Inventory (SPRI) data for 2020 following a cyber-attack in December 2020. SPRI provides a valuable picture of the amount of pollutants released in Scotland from SEPA-regulated industrial sites. Impact of COVID-19.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Just over half of all directors at 30 of the world’s largest insurance companies have affiliations to polluting companies and organisations, reveals an investigation by DeSmog, including several individuals holding senior roles at some of the world’s largest energy companies. Which raises the obvious question, why? Shrago said.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

Global assessment of soil pollution warns of major threat to food supplies unless urgent action is taken to accelerate adoption of sustainable farming practices and tackle industrial waste. The knowledge gap on soils affected by diffuse pollution and its impact on other environmental compartments is even greater.".

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Forbes Green Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

Some of the major improvements compared to the year 2019 were seen in Paris (-17%), London (-16%), Seoul (-16%), Delhi (-15%), Chicago (-13%) and Beijing (-11%). Air quality improved in 84% of all monitored countries due to Covid-19 related lockdowns in 2020, the report found.

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The Guardian: Energy

MARCH 6, 2024

New report warns of deadly health risks from fossil fuel pollution, including alarming rise in neurodevelopmental issues Chemical pollution tied to fossil fuel operations poses serious risks to human health, warns a new analysis published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In a new report, the two campaigning organisations attempted to estimate the impact car and airline advertising had on carbon emissions in 2019, both in the EU and globally. We ended tobacco advertising to save lives, now it's time to do the same for adverts by major climate polluters.".

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Charged

JUNE 8, 2020

Air pollution in China has climbed back to pre-pandemic levels, and scientists say the same will probably happen in Europe soon. At the height of the country’s coronavirus response in early March, NO 2 levels had fallen by 38% from 2019, and levels of PM2.5 European cities also saw major drops in air pollution during the lockdowns.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The UK government should increase tax on things we want less of - such as pollution - and reduce tax on things we want more of - such as jobs - explains Eunomia's Chris Sherrington. Higher prices would have cut CO2 in 2019 by 2-18 million tonnes of CO2 (MtCO2), some 0.5-5.0% of overall UK carbon emissions.".

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