Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Environmental and engineering consultancy Ricardo is applying its expertise in air quality measurement to enable local authorities across Greater Manchester to monitor the contribution to air pollution from wood burning stoves, raise public awareness of its risks, and reduce its impact on people’s health.

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Pollution Carbon-negative Health Ozone 361

The Environmental Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

This type of waste can be hazardous to human health and the environment if not managed properly. Environmental Impact of Biomedical Waste The improper management of biomedical waste can lead to negative consequences for the environment. Additionally, it can pose health risks to humans and animals.

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Waste Waste Health Carbon-negative 221

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2020

Researchers at the University of Birmingham and University of Oxford have secured £207,000 funding from the Natural Environment Research Council to investigate the impacts of COVID-19 related public health measures upon air and noise quality in Oxford. PM10); all are known to be a risk to human health.

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Energy Monitor Policy Pollution Carbon-negative 130

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 10, 2021

Increasing attention to the environmental and human health effects of PFAS is leading to the development of increasingly conservative (low) regulatory levels for PFAS in drinking water, soil, groundwater, sediments and surface waters4, 6-9. PFAS may then pose a risk of harm, depending on the site setting (i.e. Why a problem?

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Ozone Soil Health Technology 130

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2023

Their harmful impacts on human and ecosystem health are generally well understood. Many pesticides release volatile organic compounds (VOCs), a precursor to ground-level ozone that acts as a powerful greenhouse gas. In addition, they disrupt soil microbes, which play a critical role in the ability of soils to sequester carbon.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Fossil fuels Energy Monitor 95

Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

The gas, which is released by a range of anthropogenic and natural sources, is ten times more powerful than carbon dioxide at warming the atmosphere and is responsible for more than half a million deaths annually, in addition to the death of ecosystems and crops, because it creates toxic ground-level ozone.

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Methane Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative 67

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 3, 2020

During the most recent determination of the NHL’s total carbon footprint , it was estimated to emit 530,000 metric tons of greenhouse gases , an amount rivaling the yearly emissions from 110,000 cars, says the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). CFCs and HCFCs are synthetic gases attributed to ozone layer destruction.

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Global warming Carbon-negative Microplastics Pollution 36