Carpet cleaning conundrum
In rooms where smoking has taken place regularly, tobacco's imprint lingers on indoor surfaces, even long after regular smoking has stopped, according to new...
Hats off to filtering headwear
A Scottish company is seeking second round funding for what it says “could be a breakthrough in wearable technology” and a potential solution to...
Technology firm urges everyone to participate in Clean Air Day 2023
Technology firm Airly says it is lobbying government to address the ‘largest environmental health risk’
Serving as a reminder that air pollution causes up to 36,000 deaths every...
Wildfire pollution updates: Maps give shape to spreading toxic cloud
Smoke from Canadian wildfires was still affecting many areas of the Eastern US on Friday 9 June (as indicated by the many red areas...
Things to consider when choosing an air purifier
Air purification expert Blueair writes
Feeling sniffly and getting dry eyes recently? You may be experiencing hay fever symptoms. While many of us associate hay...
The quest for cleaner air
Instrumentation expert Thermo Fisher Scientific summarises the problem and its history, with discussion of the latest generation of measurement systems and their potential impact.
The...
DEFRA Air Quality Strategy: Health, environment and transport groups urge Government to re-think
Dozens of health, environment and transport businesses and charities are calling for the government to change course on its Air Quality Strategy. This comes...
Firms operating own boiler urged to register with SEPA for MPCD
Businesses operating their own boiler, engine or generator for heat or power urged to check if they must register with SEPA
Businesses that have been...
Open-source tool enables air-quality checking on a budget
An MIT research team is rolling out an open-source version of a low-cost, mobile detector that they say could enable people to track air...
The worm turns for IAQ sensing?
Researchers at the University of Turku in Finland have developed a new method for measuring indoor air quality, making use of fluorescent nematodes.
World Air Quality Report 2022 highlights pollution hotspots
A nuanced appraisal emerges from the 2022 World Air Quality report - compiled by Swiss air quality technology company IQAir - which includes a...
Sponsored Content: Proprietary technologies for affordable clean air
Anua Clean Air UK writes: We are a specialist in the field of biological air and biogas treatment, an established leader in the fields of high performance, low-cost odour and solvent emission abatement primarily based on our proprietary biofiltration and bio-scrubbing technologies.
£10.7 million for local authorities
Local authorities across England have been granted almost £11 million in the latest round of funding for projects intended to help improve air quality.
Almost nowhere on Earth safe from PM2.5, says Melbourne study
A seemingly world-first study of daily ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) across the globe reports that only 0.18% of the global land area and...
A mixture of trees purifies urban air best, reports Swedish study
Conifers are generally better than broadleaved trees at purifying air from pollutants. But deciduous tree may be better at capturing particle-bound pollution. A new...
Cheap charcoal air filters substantially improve in-vehicle air quality
A cheap charcoal air filter can reduce nitrogen dioxide (NO2) inside vehicles by as much as 90%, compared to levels outside the vehicle, according...
Novel air filter captures wide variety of pollutants
An air filter made out of corn protein instead of petroleum products can concurrently capture small particulates as well as toxic chemicals like formaldehyde...
Prioritise tackling toxic emissions from tyres, urge experts
A new briefing paper from Imperial College London attempts a deep dive on the pollution produced by the particles sloughed off from vehicle tyres....
Some local authorities pushing ahead on integrating clean air and Net Zero
A new report argues that Birmingham, Camden, Hertfordshire, Leeds and Nottingham are leading the way in integrating climate and clean air policies but says...
Reappraising assumptions about ozone in European cities
Ozone levels near the surface in urban environments are lower than expected, in the results of an Austrian research group
The 40-meter-high monitoring tower of...
