London’s air quality goes online
Detailed information on London’s air pollution will now (starting 24 July) be published on breathelondon.org, the website for a new collaborative project to paint a clearer picture of the city’s air quality .
Tracing the history of an invisible killer
A recent book charts the history of air pollution, and profiles the problem as it presents itself today
Counting the microns
Now considered the world's leading environmental risk factor, the striking fact about PM2.5 is how little of the world's populace manages to escape seemingly...
A fresh crop of data
Record hot temperatures in the UK over the summer caused significant changes to the levels of harmful pollutants such as ozone and particulate matter, prompting a number of novel observations by the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS).
Pollution primer: AQE returns to Telford
AQE returns to the Telford International Centre on 12 and 13 October. Visitors are promised the customary comprehensive package of training and development presentations on the latest methods and monitoring technologies relevant to the measurement of air quality and emissions to air.
The UK offshores emissions through used vehicle exports, says study
Published on 20 February in Nature Climate Change, the study appeared to find that exported used vehicles generate at least 13-53% more emissions per...
Traffic-free Paris experiment hailed as a success
An attempt to exclude road traffic from the French capital for a day has been hailed as a success by environmentalists, with levels of...
Danger in the air we breathe
A report in September by the European Environment Agency revealed that almost a third of the people living in Europe’s cities are exposed to...
Heated VOC analyser goes portable
Signal Group (UK) has launched a portable gas analyser, the SOLAR XPLORE, which apparently brings the advantages of the firm's Flame Ionisation Detection (FID) technology for VOC measurement to a compact, easily transportable device.
Mapping helps mitigate emissions from wood burning
A collaboration between air quality visualisation firm EarthSense and Leicester City Council will develop and test tools to support better communication about the implications of burning wood at specific times and places to enable better management of domestic stoves and emissions.
New report aims to advance safety for waste collection vehicle crews during the pandemic
Report by University College London supports the importance of ventilation and cleaning
A new report from UCL, commissioned by resource recovery firm Veolia, presents...
Reappraising assumptions about ozone in European cities
Ozone levels near the surface in urban environments are lower than expected, in the results of an Austrian research group
The 40-meter-high monitoring tower of...
Describing pollutant distribution in 3d
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 work includes the first attempts to describe how this pollution is distributed in the vertical axis, from street-level upwards, as well as the use of data from satellite measurements.
NOx and the city
Paul Marsh of Envirotec offers an update on attempts to curb air pollution in the UK
IT'S the single biggest environmental health risk in the...
Air sampling one-day course
Air sampling expert SKC is offering a comprehensive one day hands-on practical training course
Half of London SMEs haven’t prepared for ULEZ
Research conducted by the same-day distribution firm CitySprint appears to reveal that a third (31%) of London SMEs believe the Ultra Low Emission Zone...
Sponsored content: Leading the way on clean air
Anua Clean Air UK writes: Anua Clean Air UK is a specialist air pollution control company with expertise in the field of biological treatment...
Just 2% of ULEZ scrappage vans replaced by EVs
New data seem to show that only two percent of polluting vans scrapped under the ULEZ scrappage scheme have so far been switched to...
Sampler hunts fugitive air pollution
INDUSTRIAL sites and highways could become cleaner in the future thanks to shark-shaped samplers that hunt ‘fugitive’ air pollutants.
Scientists at Lancaster University and the...
Lockdown impacts: New study collects data on pollutants in the atmosphere
One consequence of the coronavirus pandemic has been global restrictions on mobility. This, in turn, is believed to have had an effect on pollution...
