The WCRAQ Air Health Working Party meeting highlighted the effects of air quality on children in Bradford and how the findings impact future projects, writes Isabella Stone.
Tag: air health
Real-world emissions data
How can you take action to reduce pollution if you cannot identify where it is coming from? Reducing pollution requires real-world data on vehicle emissions performance, argues Ben Fielden from EMSOL.
Campaigning for the kids
Mums for Lungs was set up by a group of parents in South London in 2017 campaigning to solve the problem of London’s toxic air, writes Celeste Hicks. When I was pregnant with my first child, I had a breath…
Improving air quality ‘could prevent 50,000 deaths’ across Europe
Limiting air pollution to the recommended World Health Organisation levels, could prevent over 50,000 deaths across Europe according to research.
The official journal of WCRAQ, Winter 2021, has been published
The third edition of the new thought-leading magazine for the improvement of air quality has now been published. Read your copy today and don’t hesitate to share it with colleagues. Click on the cover to read FVI. What can you read…
France taken to court by European commission over air pollution
The European Commission decided to bring France to the Court of Justice for the European Union to address their poor air quality after breaching the daily limit values of particulate matter (PM10).
Post-lockdown gridlock forecast urges drivers to take to cycle routes and walking paths
Transport experts urge Britons to get used to driving less to avoid gridlock on the roads as coronavirus restrictions lift, further suggesting councils provide better cycling routes and walking paths to get the public out of their cars.
Children to measure air pollution on commute to school
Researchers will co-ordinate with children to measure air quality on their daily commute to school in order to understand pollution’s impact on health The new Born in Bradford (BiB) venture, based at Bradford Royal Infirmary, is funded by the National…
Air pollution linked to 14 per cent of COVID-19 deaths, study finds
Long-term exposure to air pollution may be linked to 15% of COVID-19 deaths worldwide, researchers uncovered in a new study. Published in the Cardiovascular Research journal, the researchers from Germany and Cyprus analysed health and disease data from the United…
WCRAQ Chair of Air Health and Chair of Education speak at DEFRA meeting
Towards the close of September, Professor Stephen Holgate, Chair of Air Health, and Trewin Restorick, Chair of Education, spoke at a Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs meeting. Professor Stephen Holgate of the University of Southampton has a research…