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Last month Sarah Legge, Chair of EPIC’s Air Quality & Climate Change Task Group, spoke at our National Air Quality Conference in London about a newly launched guidance document titled: ‘Integrating Action on Air Quality &...Friday, December 20, 2024 from AirQualityNews
A proposed new solar farm to the northwest of Newark in Nottinghamshire has been designed in consulation with a group of leading eco-organisations to offer both renewable energy and sustainable agriculture. The Great North Road...Friday, December 20, 2024 from AirQualityNews
Suffolk County Council are looking for residents to take part in a EV charging trial, which will explore the use of pavement channels to charge cars outside homes without off street parking. The trial will last 12 months and will...Thursday, December 19, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Communities up and down the West Coast of the United States can expect atmospheric rivers to evolve as the climate warms. But residents in Southern California will see much different changes than residents in more northerly locations...Thursday, December 19, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
A new study shows how remote sensing can help monitor and remove plastic debris from freshwater environments like the Mississippi River.Thursday, December 19, 2024 from AirQualityNews
Researchers at the Brown University School of Public Health have found that poor air quality leads to slower marathon running times, with the better runners being affected more. Allan Just, an associate professor of epidemiology and...Thursday, December 19, 2024 from AirQualityNews
New research by Mums For Lungs has exposed the ineffectiveness of complaining about the nuisance of domestic wood burning. At a time when domestic wood burning is front and centre of the air quality debate, the public still have very...Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Pollution News
Tires and degrading garbage shed tiny pieces of plastic into the air, creating a form of air pollution that researchers suspect may be causing respiratory and other illnesses.Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from AirQualityNews
Following the receipt of a £13million grant to help hit its target of being net zero by 2030, Coventry University has begun work installing hundreds of new solar panels across campus. The grant from the Public Sector Decarbonisation...Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from AirQualityNews
Four organisations at the vanguard of the transition to electrified transport have called on the government to resist pressure to weaken the ZEV mandate, which obliges car manufacturers to sell a minimum of 22% zero emission vehicles in...Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from AirQualityNews
A study published in Environmental Science and Ecotechnology has revealed a strong connection between long-term air pollution exposure and an increased risk of depression. This study was based on data from the China Health and...Tuesday, December 17, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Economists looked at test scores and school attendance for Chicago-area kids before and after a bug infestation wiped out the city's ash trees. Education outcomes for low-income students went down, highlighting how the impacts of...Tuesday, December 17, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
The holidays are in full swing and people are shopping, wrapping and packing to visit loved ones. Along with the extra fees for checked baggage and seat upgrades, some airlines are also considering weight-based pricing. A recent study...Tuesday, December 17, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
New technology could remotely identify various types of plastics, offering a valuable tool for future monitoring and analysis of oceanic plastic pollution. A new hyperspectral Raman imaging lidar system can remotely detect and identify...Tuesday, December 17, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Scientists are exploring a new model for carbon capture in low-oxygen aquatic environments, such as fisheries, that will help address rising global temperatures and could potentially be cost-effective.Tuesday, December 17, 2024 from AirQualityNews
Manchester City Council has received £560,000 of funding from the Urban Tree Challenge Fund to continue its roll-out of trees across the city. Since 2020 the council have secured a total of £1.8m for tree planting, including its...Monday, December 16, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Pollution News
New research has uncovered a potential unintended consequence of the electric vehicle transition in India and China, finding that sulfur dioxide emissions could actually increase over current levels if the countries were to fully onshore...Monday, December 16, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Researchers have found that marine animals across mammals, birds and reptiles swim at similar relative depths when traveling and not feeding to save energy.Monday, December 16, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
On February 2, 1887, residents of Punxsutawney Pennsylvania consulted a large rodent regarding the arrival of spring, marking the first official celebration of Groundhog Day. Our ability to predict the timing of seasons hasn't improved...Friday, December 13, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Pollution News
A new prototype device demonstrates an innovative approach to producing ammonia -- a key component of fertilizer -- that could transform an industry responsible for about one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions.Friday, December 13, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Pollution News
Wildfire smoke has long been known to exacerbate health problems like heart disease, lung conditions, and asthma, but now a new study finds that smoke from these fires can lead to poor health thousands of miles away. Researchers found...Thursday, December 12, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Pollution News
Researchers have synthesized new molecules able to quickly capture significant amounts of carbon dioxide from the air, an important tactic in climate change mitigation.Thursday, December 12, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Climate and land use change have and will continue to alter streamflow regimes and water quality through the 21st century, with consequences for drinking water treatment costs, flood protection, and other ecosystem services, according to...Thursday, December 12, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Pollution News
Researchers have found evidence that living in areas prone to wildfire smoke may negatively impact an individual's life expectancy.Thursday, December 12, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Plastic pollution is a growing problem in Japan, prompting cleanup efforts to recover plastic litter from water bodies. However, research on recovery rates from different river basins remains limited. In a recent study, researchers from...Thursday, December 12, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Pollution News
A large study found that greater exposure to long-term air pollution was linked with increased risks for blood clots that can occur in deep veins, which, if untreated, can block blood flow and cause serious complications, even death.Wednesday, December 11, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Pollution News
A new study shows that long-term exposure to air pollution contributes to millions of deaths in India. The research emphasizes the need for stricter air quality regulations in the country.Wednesday, December 11, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Pollution News
Researchers have designed a new compound to remove nitrogen oxides, which constitutes a step towards the development of a system to purify the air under real conditions.Tuesday, December 10, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Normally, America's smokiest cities lie out west. But Canada's unusually intense 2023 wildfire season smothered American cities in smoke farther east than is usual, according to new research.Tuesday, December 10, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
New insights into the behavior of aerosols from cooking emissions and sea spray reveal that particles may take up more water than previously thought, potentially changing how long the particles remain in the atmosphere.Tuesday, December 10, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Some of the world's smallest animals and their tiny poops could aid in the fight against climate change. A study reports that clay dust sprayed on the surface of seawater converts free-floating carbon particulates into food for...Tuesday, December 10, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
A research group has developed a new design for the electrolytes used in fuel cells. The material complies with environmental regulations and demonstrates moderate conductivity in harsh conditions, reaching four times the conductivity of...Tuesday, December 10, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Greenhouse gas emissions from tourism have been growing more than 2 times faster than those from the rest of the global economy. The study tracked international and domestic travel for 175 countries to find tourism's carbon footprint is...Friday, December 6, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Researchers show that the all-time record low in winter sea ice extent in 2023 can be explained by warm Southern Ocean conditions and patterns in the winds that circled Antarctica months earlier, allowing forecasts for sea ice coverage...Friday, December 6, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Many recent studies assume that elderly people are at particular risk of dying from extreme heat as the planet warms. A new study of mortality in Mexico turns this assumption on its head: it shows that 75% of heat-related deaths are...Thursday, December 5, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Extreme weather and pollution have increased the salt content in some soil, making growing conditions harsh for salt-sensitive crops like rice. Now, researchers detail a possible solution that doesn't require genetic modification to make...Wednesday, December 4, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
The rainforest in the Amazon basin transpires vast amounts of gaseous isoprene. Until now, it was assumed that this molecule is not transported far up into the atmosphere, as it rapidly declines when exposed to light conditions. The...Wednesday, December 4, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Two massive asteroids hit Earth around 35.65 million years ago, but did not lead to any lasting changes in the Earth's climate, according to a new study.Wednesday, December 4, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Chemical engineers designed a catalyst that can convert methane into useful polymers, which could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.Wednesday, December 4, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Undocumented orphaned wells pose hazards to both the environment and the climate. Scientists are building modern tools to help locate, assess, and pave the way for ultimately plugging these forgotten relics.Tuesday, December 3, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Previous research found that insects can ingest and absorb pure, unrefined microplastics -- but only under unrealistic, food-scarce situations. Zoologists have now tested mealworms in a more realistic scenario, feeding them ground-up...Tuesday, December 3, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
A research team has developed new approach to measure ocean memory and found that the North Atlantic Ocean has a memory of approximately one to two decades, significantly surpassing previous estimates of a few years.Tuesday, December 3, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Pollution News
With house building a priority for the new UK Government, researchers are urging city planners not to forget to build 'greening areas' such as parks in new communities.Tuesday, December 3, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Pollution News
A nationwide U.S. assessment of estimated cancer risk from airborne toxics shows that risk is concentrated in urban communities, those with lower incomes, and those with higher proportions of racial minorities.Tuesday, December 3, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Researchers found that emissions from streams are largely derived from nitrification processes in agricultural soils. Further, they found that stream emissions make up a much greater portion of the annual nitrous oxide budget than...Tuesday, December 3, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
Scientists have found a way to more than double the uptake ability of a chemical structure that can be used for scrubbing carbon dioxide from factory flues.Tuesday, December 3, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Pollution News
Nitrogen oxide emissions from soil in California's Salton Sea air basin are 10 times larger than state estimates, finds a new study of rural Imperial and Coachella valleys.Friday, November 29, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
For pregnant women, exposure to fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) was associated with altered immune responses that can lead to adverse birth outcomes, according to a new study. The study is among the first to examine the...Wednesday, November 27, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
A research team has found a way to make more efficient the desorption of water-adsorption polymers used in atmospheric water harvesting and desiccant air conditioning.Wednesday, November 27, 2024 from ScienceDaily: Air Quality News
A groundbreaking international study shows how chemical fingerprints left by 'underappreciated' aquatic organisms could help scientists monitor global environmental change.