Wood burner air pollution

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…

‘Significant link’ between air pollution particles and neurological disorders, study finds

A major long-term study conducted by Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health has associated tiny air pollution particles with molecular damage linked to Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. If this ground-breaking discovery is corroborated by future research, it would have…

British Heart Foundation: Government publishes analysis on how lockdown has affected air pollution levels

A report by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) assessing the impact of lockdown measures to the end of April has revealed that overall concentrations of PM2.5 have been higher in this period than in previous years …read more

Guardian: Air pollution likely to make coronavirus worse according to UK experts

Air pollution is likely to be increasing the number and severity of Covid-19 infections, according to the UK government’s expert advisers. In a report published on Wednesday, the experts said further investigation of the link between dirty air and the coronavirus…

WHO acknowledges ‘evidence emerging’ of airborne transmission of COVID-19

Yesterday, the World Health Organization acknowledged new emerging evidence that the novel coronavirus does spread more widely in the air than previously suggested. Airborne transmission cannot be ruled out in crowded, closed or poorly ventilated areas. Speaking in Geneva this…