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Experts to help tackle air pollution from domestic solid fuel burning in Greater Manchester

Envirotec Magazine

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.

Pollution 361
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Can better monitoring and testing help to tackle nitrogen pollution?

Envirotec Magazine

By Dr Calum Preece Improving the monitoring and mitigation of major pollution trends is one of the most important areas of environmental research. Nitrogen pollution is one of the best examples of a major environmental issue for which reliable, accessible monitoring is required in order to solve the problem.

Pollution 221
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Air and noise quality study will help inform Oxford City’s future environmental policy approach

Envirotec Magazine

The new ‘OxAria’ study started on 1st July, extending an existing collaboration which has enabled five low-cost air pollution sensors to be installed at city centre locations, generating real-time information on key air pollutants, including nitrogen oxides (NO, NO2), carbon monoxide (CO), ozone (O3) and particulate matter (PM1, PM2.5,

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Population ageing and declining economic status may amplify air pollution health impacts

Envirotec Magazine

Population aging and economic development setbacks may outpace the health benefits of less air pollution and slowed climate change, according to a group examining air quality and the factors most likely to impact future premature deaths. However, lower pollution concentrations alone did not necessarily lower the projected number of deaths.

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Why Polluters’ Greenwashing Works and How to Fight It

DeSmogBlog

He’s an ExxonMobil scientist in a company ad that also shows other scientists in a high-tech lab working to develop “low-carbon technologies.” Basically, polluting companies increasingly need to present themselves as green to avoid accountability for their contributions to the climate crisis. To do so, they turn to greenwashing.

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An overlooked threat to the honey bee: Air pollution

Grist

It’s no secret that living near a highway, a power plant, or some other source of air pollution can slowly kill you. But surprisingly, much less is known about how the same pollutants affect the critters fluttering around us, breathing the very same air. The findings do not bode well for India’s economy and food security.

Pollution 100
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Ocean change is exacerbating the climate crisis

Envirotec Magazine

Pointing to the need for an Earthscape approach to decision making, the paper identifies key ways in which the ocean both mitigates climate change by absorbing excess heat and carbon from the atmosphere and aggravates it, failure in ocean systems exacerbating extreme weather, shifting ocean currents and reducing its ability to absorb carbon.