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Researchers have been examining the possibility that wind could be spreading microplastics and nanoplastics (MNP) from sewage spills into the air along coastlines. The study was conducted by experts in marine science, human health...Thursday, July 10, 2025 from AirQualityNews
In the last week we have added our fifth and sixth speakers to complete the line-up for the National Air Quality Conference which will be held in London on 4th November. Our final two speakers are, respectively, experts in the...Thursday, July 10, 2025 from AirQualityNews
New research suggests that exposure to air pollution increases the chances of developing meningioma, a tumour that forms in the protective membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord. Researchers in Denmark followed nearly 4...Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from AirQualityNews
The latest London Boroughs Healthy Streets Scorecard has been published, identifying which of London’s boroughs are doing most to meet the ambitions of the Mayor’s Transport Strategy. Behind the scorecard, which was launched...Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from AirQualityNews
A new report titled ‘Transforming mobility’ has suggested a number of solutions for breaking down the barriers to mobility faced by disabled people. The research was led by Sustrans’ policy team alongside the...Friday, July 4, 2025 from AirQualityNews
During London Climate Action Week, a roundtable was held at the Swedish Embassy to confront a growing urban threat: emissions from diesel-powered construction equipment. At the heart of the discussion was a shared urgency to accelerate...Friday, July 4, 2025 from AirQualityNews
The Onshore Wind Taskforce has published its Strategy document, detailing a set of actions aimed at accelerating the deployment of onshore wind in the UK and delivering benefits for local communities, British businesses, and consumers....Thursday, July 3, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Breathing polluted air—even at levels considered “safe”—may quietly damage your heart. A new study using advanced MRI scans found that people exposed to more air pollution showed early signs of scarring in their heart muscle, which can...Thursday, July 3, 2025 from AirQualityNews
A new study has revealed that ships moving through shallow waters may be unintentionally releasing large amounts of methane into the atmosphere, not from their engines, but from the seafloor beneath them. While methane emissions from...Thursday, July 3, 2025 from AirQualityNews
A new study has found a link between in-utero exposure to fine particulate matter and low birth weight and preterm birth in India. Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi investigated the relationship between...Monday, June 30, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Smoke from wildfires and structural fires doesn t just irritate lungs it actually changes your immune system. Harvard scientists found that even healthy people exposed to smoke showed signs of immune system activation, genetic changes...Monday, June 30, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Wildfires are becoming more intense and dangerous, but a new Stanford-led study offers hope: prescribed burns—intentionally set, controlled fires—can significantly lessen their impact. By analyzing satellite data and smoke emissions,...Saturday, June 28, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Parts of New Orleans are sinking at alarming rates — including some of the very floodwalls built to protect it. A new satellite-based study finds that some areas are losing nearly two inches of elevation per year, threatening the...Friday, June 27, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
At Flinders University, scientists have cracked a cleaner and greener way to extract gold—not just from ore, but also from our mounting piles of e-waste. By using a compound normally found in pool disinfectants and a novel polymer that...Tuesday, June 24, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Over 300 million years ago, Earth experienced powerful bursts of carbon dioxide from natural sources—like massive volcanic eruptions—that triggered dramatic drops in ocean oxygen levels. These ancient "carbon burps" led to dangerous...Sunday, June 22, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
A Rice University team discovered that bubbling CO₂ through a mild acid dramatically improves the lifespan and efficiency of electrochemical devices that convert CO₂ into useful fuels. This simple trick prevents salt buildup—a major...Friday, June 20, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Pollution News
In a twist on conventional wisdom, researchers have discovered that in ocean-like fluids with changing density, tiny porous particles can sink faster than larger ones, thanks to how they absorb salt. Using clever lab experiments with...Tuesday, June 17, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
In a surprising twist during an air quality study in Oklahoma, researchers detected MCCPs an industrial pollutant never before measured in the Western Hemisphere's atmosphere. The team suspects these toxic compounds are entering the air...Tuesday, June 3, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
A new study details processes that keep pollutants aloft despite a drop in emissions.Monday, June 2, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Pollution News
California Central Valley, which is known for the agriculture that produces much of the nation's fruits, vegetables and nuts, is a major contributor to a growing dust problem that has profound implications for people's health, safety and...Monday, June 2, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Researchers showed that hydrogen sulfide, which is associated with numerous health conditions, is emitted from California's largest lake at levels far higher and more frequently than previously reported.Friday, May 30, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Ozone pollution is a global environmental concern that not only threatens human health and crop production, but also worsens global warming. While the formation of ozone is often attributed to anthropogenic pollutants, soil emissions are...Thursday, May 29, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Hurricane Ida wreaked an estimated $75 billion in total damages and was responsible for 112 fatalities -- including 32 in New Jersey and 16 in New York state. Yet the hurricane could have been even worse in the Big Apple, find scientists.Thursday, May 29, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Researchers determined how much outdoor particulate pollution affects indoor air quality. Their study concluded pollution from inversion and dust events is kept out of buildings, but wildfire smoke can sneak inside if efficient 'air-side...Thursday, May 29, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
A new study reveals that the aerobic nitrogen cycle in the ocean may have occurred about 100 million years before oxygen began to significantly accumulate in the atmosphere, based on nitrogen isotope analysis from ancient South African...Thursday, May 29, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Pollution News
As the world shifts toward sustainable energy sources, 'green hydrogen' - hydrogen produced without emitting carbon - has emerged as a leading candidate for clean power. Scientists have now developed a new iron-based catalyst that more...Thursday, May 29, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Replanting forests can help cool the planet even more than some scientists once believed, especially in the tropics. But even if every tree lost since the mid-19th century is replanted, the total effect won't cancel out human-generated...Thursday, May 29, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Lead contamination in municipal water sources is a consistent threat to public health. Ingesting even tiny amounts of lead can harm the human brain and nervous system -- especially in young children. To empower people to detect lead...Tuesday, May 27, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Pollution News
With wildfires increasing in frequency, severity, and size in the Western U.S., researchers are determined to better understand how smoke impacts air quality, public health, and even the weather. As fires burn, they release enormous...Tuesday, May 27, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
A pioneering method to simulate how microscopic particles move through the air could boost efforts to combat air pollution, a study suggests.Tuesday, May 27, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Most people have witnessed -- or rather smelled -- when a protein enzyme called sulfite reductase works its magic. This enzyme catalyzes the chemical reduction of sulfite to hydrogen sulfide. Hydrogen sulfide is the rotten egg smell that...Thursday, May 22, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Pollution News
Engineers developed a membrane that filters the components of crude oil by their molecular size, an advance that could dramatically reduce the amount of energy needed for crude oil fractionation.Thursday, May 22, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
A modeling study shows that global warming will make it harder to reduce ground-level ozone, a respiratory irritant that is a key component of smog, by cutting greenhouse gas emissions.Wednesday, May 21, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
In 2022 a team discovered that high levels of OH radicals can be generated indoors, simply due to the presence of people and ozone. This means: People generate their own oxidation field and change the indoor air chemistry around them...Wednesday, May 21, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
A study has found that implementing robust air pollution control measures could mean Southeast Asian countries prevent as many as 36,000 ozone-related premature deaths each year by 2050.Wednesday, May 21, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
If you've ever sat waiting at the doctor's office to give a blood sample, you might have wished there was a way to find the same information without needles. But for all the medical breakthroughs of the 20th century, the best way to...Wednesday, May 21, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Hurricane winds are a major contributor to storm-related losses for people living in the southeastern coastal states. As the global temperature continues to rise, scientists predict that hurricanes will get more destructive -- packing...Wednesday, May 21, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Researchers look to extremes in the past to study how the system reacts to imbalances. They detail an overlooked mechanism for how the ocean can help stabilize massive releases of carbon into the atmosphere following volcanic eruptions.Wednesday, May 21, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Large shifts in UV radiation at Lake Tahoe are associated with wet and dry climate extremes, finds a new study.Tuesday, May 20, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
New research could improve the efficiency of electrochemical carbon-dioxide capture and release by six times and cut costs by at least 20 percent. Researchers added nanoscale filtering membranes to a carbon-capture system, separating the...Tuesday, May 20, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Forests play a crucial role in promoting health and wellbeing, but not all forests provide the same benefits. A large-scale study demonstrates how specific forest characteristics -- such as canopy density and tree species diversity --...Friday, May 16, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
New research suggests that the negative effects of the ozone hole on the carbon uptake of the Southern Ocean are reversible, but only if greenhouse gas emissions rapidly decrease. The study finds that as the ozone hole heals, its...Friday, May 16, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
The combination of air pollution, dense urban development and limited green spaces increases the risk of asthma in both children and adults.Thursday, May 15, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
The latest study finds that emissions of the potent greenhouse gas might be higher than previously estimated.Wednesday, May 14, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
As industries seek innovative solutions for carbon capture, scientists have turned to advanced materials that efficiently trap and store carbon dioxide (CO ) from industrial emissions. A recent study sheds light on the gas adsorption...Wednesday, May 14, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Pollution News
A new study examined associations between diet, drinking water, and 'legacy' PFAS -- chemicals that were phased out of production in the US in the 2000s -- with blood samples from California residents. PFAS exposure was associated with...Wednesday, May 14, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Pollution News
Scientists are using artificial intelligence to determine which genes collectively govern nitrogen use efficiency in plants such as corn, with the goal of helping farmers improve their crop yields and minimize the cost of nitrogen...Wednesday, May 14, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Researchers have developed an encapsulated cobalt-nickel alloy that significantly improves the efficiency and durability of high-temperature CO2 conversion, a promising technology for carbon recycling and sustainable fuel production.Monday, May 12, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Stifling heat and sticky air often make summertime in the city uncomfortable. Due to the heat island effect, urban areas are significantly warmer than nearby rural areas, even at night. This, combined with more frequent extreme weather...Monday, May 12, 2025 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Current methods of capturing and releasing carbon are expensive and so energy-intensive they often require, counterproductively, the use of fossil fuels. Taking inspiration from plants, researchers have assembled a chemical process that...