Bristol City Council to introduce a category D Clean Air Zone (CAZ), Mayor Marvin Rees announces.
Category: Air Quality News
Airport pollution proven to affect lung function of those near airports
A trial in the Netherlands has found that young health people who exercised outside an airport in Amsterdam had altered lung and heart function as a result of ultrafine particles.
Soil could be the answer to removing air pollution and even regulating climate change
Soil bacteria can play a key role in the removal of air pollution as well as the regulation of climate change, a recent study published in the Nature Microbiology journal has found.
Scottish Clean Air Plan does not go far enough, charities speak out
Charities including Friends of the Earth Scotland, the British Heart Foundation, and the British Lung Foundation have all labelled the Cleaner Air for Scotland plan as a ‘huge missed opportunity’.
Welsh Government release White Paper on impact of air quality over lockdowns
The Welsh Government today published a report on its plans for a Clean Air (Wales) Bill to protect human health and ecosystems from air pollution.
Coventry and Oxford first cities to trial all-electric bus cities
Coventry and Oxford are both developing proposals to become the first areas of the UK to switch an entire town or city’s bus fleet to electric vehicles.
ClientEarth Business Update
December 2020: ClientEarth dwell on the continued efforts to fight Covid-19 and the encouraging Ten Point Plan government has committed for a Green Industrial Revolution.
Wood burners should come with a health warning, study suggests
Wood burners have been found to triple levels of harmful indoor pollution, and should not be used around the vulnerable, scientists determine. People who load wood into a wood burner are exposed to twice as much pollution than those who…
Toxic danger from wood burning and tyre particles
Swiss analysis of different sources of air pollution revealed poor air quality is the fourth biggest risk factor for early death Globally, breathing polluted air has been identified as the fourth largest risk factor for premature death. The real health…
Train-mounted sensors allow cost-effective air monitoring
Mobile devices fitted to trains can sense greenhouse gas emissions and monitor air quality at a lower cost.