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. Air pollution is the biggest environmental health risk in Europe, with the problem greatest in cities, according to the EEA.

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 23, 2023

These pollutants contribute significantly to environmental degradation and pose serious health risks to both humans and ecosystems. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution is responsible for around 7 million premature deaths each year. The impact on human health is equally concerning.

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It can make simple tasks harder and have adverse effects on your health. The two main kinds of air pollution are ozone and particle contamination. You’ve probably heard people talking about ozone before, but you may be less familiar with particle pollution. You already know smoking is bad for your health.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

This type of waste can be hazardous to human health and the environment if not managed properly. Additionally, it can pose health risks to humans and animals. Importance of Reducing Biomedical Waste Reducing the amount of biomedical waste generated is crucial for protecting public health and the environment.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2022

We know that these pollutants are bad for our health, and the significant reductions we saw in pollinator numbers and activity shows that there are also clear implications for the natural ecosystems we depend on.”. Previous laboratory studies by members of the Reading team have shown that diesel fumes can alter floral odours.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

With the decision to inform ourselves about pollutant levels in our vicinity comes the opportunity to make judicious health choices – in practice, deciding to stand some distance away from a bus stop rather than directly at it might mean the difference between receiving a whole day’s recommended dosage of NOx vs 50% of a daily dosage.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Health costs incurred as a result of air pollution are collectively higher in London than any other city in Europe, according to study that quantifies how much money European city dwellers spend due to particulate matter, NO2, and ozone.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

Researchers reveal NO2 emission reductions during first lockdown were lower than previously thought, amidst warnings ozone levels actually increased. William Bloss, study co-author and professor of atmospheric studies, said the observed increase in ozone would offset some of the benefits generated by the decline in nitrous oxide. "[An

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Late August saw the release of “Air Quality and Health In Cities”, the latest edition of The State of Global Air report, produced annually by the US Health Effects Institute. It attempts a snapshot of air pollution exposure in over 7000 cities worldwide, and its impact on health. Between NO2 and PM2.5,

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 15, 2022

These gases can directly damage crop cells and indirectly affect them through their role as precursors to formation of ozone, an airborne toxin known to reduce crop yields, and particulate matter aerosols that can absorb and scatter sunlight away from crops. Nitrogen oxides, or NOx, are among the most widely emitted pollutants in the world.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

The firm behind it hopes “to fundamentally transform how we monitor and manage air pollution to improve public health and well-being in urban spaces.” There’s no time to wait in tackling the air pollution crisis – we all contribute to air pollution, and we all suffer the health impacts that it causes. Early adopter.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 22, 2023

Working in a biophilic office environment nourishes employees’ physical and mental health in many ways, such as reducing airborne pollutants, creating a calming atmosphere, among several others. Having plants and green walls in the office can improve air quality by removing airborne pollutants, reducing indoor CO 2 and producing oxygen.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

VOCs are significant air pollutants because they act as precursors to tropospheric (ground level) ozone and secondary organic aerosols (particulate matter), both of which represent significant health hazards. NMVOC emissions have declined in recent decades as a result of the use of catalytic converters and other factors.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 9, 2023

Both the alert system used by the EPA and the IQAir index report on the five major pollutants also flagged in the US Clean Air Act: particulate matter, ozone, sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide. Health authorities in areas issuing alerts were advising people to remain indoors, or not go outside unless they had to.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 29, 2022

Professor Crispin Halsall of Lancaster University, and who led the study, believes this increase can be partly explained by a switch by global chemicals manufacturers around 20 years ago from producing long-chain chemicals like PFOA to shorter-chain compounds, such as PFBA due to health concerns associated with human exposure to PFOA.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 26, 2022

Working in a biophilic office environment nourishes employees’ physical and mental health in many ways such as reducing airborne pollutants, creating a calming atmosphere, among several others. Biophilic design encompasses benefits for human health as well as for environmental sustainability and business productivity.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The AirBubbl is equally effective at removing air pollution, including harmful ozone gases, nitrogen dioxide (NOx) and particle air pollutants PM2.5 Wayne York, Transit Manager, Turlock Transit, said: “California faces a huge health challenge both from COVID-19 and from harmful air pollution.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Due to its climate and indirect health impacts (methane is a precursor for ozone which is an air pollutant that damages human health and crops), methane mitigation has recently become a global policy priority.

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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. Major drawbacks arise with this approach as a result of using ozone, which is a chemical oxidant.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2021

Particulate emissions from cooking stay in the atmosphere for longer than previously thought, making a prolonged contribution to poor air quality and human health, according to a new study. The ability of these particles to remain in the atmosphere has a number of implications for climate change and human health. Climate impacts.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 30, 2022

Friday, 17 June, the hottest day of the year so far, saw unhealthy levels of Ozone across the Borough. Councillor Adam Harrison, Cabinet member for a sustainable Camden said: “Reducing air pollution is absolutely vital to improving the health and well-being of everyone in Camden.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Both the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) jointly warn that because of these serious healthcare and medical costs, climate change is essentially a public health crisis. But with the NRDC-UCSF findings, links can now be established correlating health data with climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 8, 2022

Pollutants pose a threat not only to human health and the ecosystem. Ozonation and other oxidation methods, biological treatment, and membrane filtration are the advanced technologies used to remove pollutants from water. However, over 6 per cent is not sufficiently well treated to meet secondary biological treatment standards.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

Weld County, a 4,000-square-mile area northeast of Denver, this year received failing air quality grades for ozone and particulate matter — pollutants linked to fossil fuel extraction — from the American Lung Association. The Colorado Springs area received failing grades for ozone in 2024. How can they do both effectively?” she said.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2022

That’s the message delivered on Tuesday by public health experts from the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health, a high-profile panel of scientific experts. There’s not a whole lot being done about it,” said Rachael Kupka, executive director of the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution and one of the report’s coauthors.

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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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Defend Our Future

JANUARY 30, 2024

But without clean air, our health and safety in outdoor environments is threatened. Despite Colorado having some of the nation’s strongest clean air protections, Denver ranks as being the seventh-most polluted city for ozone pollution in the country according to the American Lung Association’s last State of the Air Report.

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Grist

MAY 30, 2024

As a researcher at the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, Basu knew that other vulnerable populations, notably the elderly, were particularly susceptible to heat. Higher temperatures will also have knock-on impacts to gestational and fetal health. And the U.S.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 14, 2020

The health of human beings depends on the state of the environment as well. These affect natural habitats, produces acid rain and destroys the ozone layer because of global warming. These gases weaken our ozone layer and cause a lot of pollution and climatic changes. billion tons per year. Promotes Sustainable Lifestyle.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

CFCs were destroying the ozone layer high in the Earth’s atmosphere, which is essential for protecting life from the Sun’s harmful ultraviolet radiation. But when they break down, they create chlorine that reacts with the protective ozone, letting dangerous radiation through to the Earth’s surface. Why HFCs are a climate problem.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 21, 2022

The main challenges with building sustainability involve reducing overall impact to human health the and the environment. It will save you money in the long run in operational costs, reduce your environmental impact, and improve the health and lives of your occupants. Challenges. Increasing energy efficiency. Maintenance. Conclusion.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 19, 2024

D’Evelyn , a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Washington’s Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center. Air quality monitoring networks play a crucial role in enhancing climate resilience by providing communities and policymakers the data they need to understand the relationships between air quality and public health.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

and ozone, and to compare the data to the past seven years. doi: 10.1007/s11869-020-00937-0) is published in Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health. The study appeared to reveal that during this period (from 23 March to 13 June 2020) nitrogen dioxide (NO2) levels were cut by half which would relate to the reduction in vehicle emissions.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 21, 2020

That’s because they are solving a huge problem related to global warming and human health. Greenhouse gases (methane, carbon dioxide, ozone, etc.) When looking at your overall health, the author states that plant-based sources of protein are actually considered better for you and your health.

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Grist

JULY 18, 2024

No one doubts that cutting sulfur emissions benefits public health. Luckily, when combined, the greenhouse gases methane and ground-level ozone warm the planet as much as aerosols cool it. Low-lying ozone persists for a few weeks at most, and methane disappears within a decade. And they don’t last nearly as long as CO2 does.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

MappAir® now provides hourly concentrations of five pollutants, adding ozone (O3,), sulphur dioxide (SO2) and particle matter (PM10) to its existing nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and particle matter (PM2.5)

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 26, 2021

As far as ozone pollution goes, L.A. This year’s installation of the American Lung Association’s State of the Air report gave Los Angeles , Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties an F in particle and ozone pollution. and surrounding counties lead the nation, says a new study. Forty percent of U.S.

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