New initiative aims to advance the removal of dirty vehicles from London’s streets
As part of a drive to tackle dirty air across London, Mayor Sadiq Khan has announced a series of measures intended to accelerate the...
Sponsored content: Air sampler flow calibration
Regulatory compliance, customer confidence, due diligence, quality or measurement uncertainty are just a few of the factors
Group demonstrates concept for cheap, sensitive NO2 sensors based on graphene
Putative "wonder material" graphene is starting to show up in novel approaches to the design of air quality sensors, the latest being a demonstration concept announced by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in December.
Air pollution on track to exceed limits at 4 out of 5 Breathe London...
Advocacy group Environmental Defense Fund Europe (EDFE) together with Mayor Sadiq Khan have released the second wave of data from Breathe London, an ambitious collaborative project to measure and map air pollution across the capital.
Air pollution and premature death: Life expectancy impacts described in Bristol study
Research considers health impact in England’s eighth biggest city, Bristol
Five people dying prematurely every week - 260 for the year as a...
House developers could be the secret weapon to improving air quality, say experts
House developers and urban planners could become the unlikely heroes in the battle against the “new tobacco” – air pollution – say researchers...
Pakistan: Hazardous air puts lives at risk, says Amnesty
Smog near the India-Pakistan border.
The government’s failure to protect people from exposure to hazardous air in Punjab risks violating their human rights to life...
Political and business leaders meet to agree new action for tackling air pollution
An international clean air summit, hosted on 23 October by the Mayor of London, attended by government ministers and the head of the World...
Grant award for project to tackle air pollution in West African cities
Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and the University of York have been awarded a grant for a project that aims to give West African cities access to low-cost air pollution monitoring technologies
Higher air pollution days trigger hundreds of cardiac arrests and hospitalisations for strokes and...
New data shows that hundreds of children and adults are suffering out-of-hospital cardiac arrests or being sent to hospital for strokes or severe asthma attacks on days when air pollution levels are higher in nine major cities across England
“Smart cube” model for wind tunnels could help improve accuracy of air pollution data
A project led by the University of Surrey will manufacture a miniature building model with the aim being to help develop a better understanding of how to tackle air pollution in cities across the world
Sorex Sensors launch first dust sensor based on film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR) technology
The University of Cambridge spin-out has launched its first product based on its seemingly breakthrough sensor technology
Consultancy to assess air quality in Epping Forest
The environmental team at engineering consultancy Idom Merebrook Ltd (IDOM) has been appointed by the City of London to work on a project assessing...
New network of weather stations in Sheffield
Instrumentation firm OTT HydroMet is installing fifteen automatic weather stations as part of the University of Sheffield’s Urban Flows Observatory, which is led by...
Air pollution map goes global, with more localised detail, and covering more pollutants
Air quality expert EarthSense has announced a new release of its MappAir® high-resolution map of air pollution, with powerful new features and improved scalability...
An independent approach to air?
Scotland's clean air strategy “is generally performing quite well by EU and global comparison”, according to an independent review .
Managing NOx gas emissions from combustion
Pollution can only be managed effectively if it is monitored effectively. So, as political pressure increases on measures to limit the emissions of the oxides of nitrogen, James Clements, managing director of UK analyser manufacturer Signal Group, explains the current issues and the latest advances in monitoring technology .
Collaboration targets graphene sensors
Graphene-based sensors that can measure air quality seem to be getting closer to mass production, according to claims .
Study links fine particles to death rates
Exposure to toxic air pollutants is linked to increased cardiovascular and respiratory death rates, according to a new, international study
Treat citizens as partners, not participants, to improve air quality research
Encouraging citizens to take part in almost every step of scientific air quality research improves their understanding of how air pollution affects their health,...
