Air Pollution

People are buying up firewood and installing wood-burning stoves to heat their homes to reduce the impact of the hike in UK energy prices Environment 2 September 2022 By Adam Vaughan Many people in the UK are turning to wood fires for heating to avoid high bills for gas and…

Environment Protection Authority Victoria (EPA) has laid 39 charges each against a company and a former company director under both the Environment Protection Act 1970 and the Environment Protection Act 2017 following an investigation into the alleged discharge of odour, dust, airborne particles and Oxides of Nitrogen from a Benalla…

No fewer than 22,500 children according to the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA), died of air pollution in the previous year. The agency revealed this in its latest report on the impact of air pollution on the health of Lagosians, Naija News understands. Having acknowledged that Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu‘s…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Research presented at ESC Congress 2022 supports a causal relationship between air pollution and heart attacks since smokers, who already inhale smoke, were unaffected by dirty air. Study author Dr. Insa de Buhr-Stockburger of Berlin Brandenburg Myocardial Infarction Registry (B2HIR), Germany said: "The correlation between air…

EnvironmentA wavy jet stream, air pollution, and changes to the landscape are all theories for why the Southeast has warmed less than other parts of the planet. BySarah Gibbens Published August 23, 2022 • 7 min read In approximately 1958, as climate change began to warm the rest of the…

At a table in the Berghoff German restaurant in downtown Chicago in 2012, Charlie Catlett feverishly drew software architecture on a napkin. A senior computer scientist at Argonne National Laboratory at the time, Catlett had been working with scientists from the US Environmental Protection Agency to understand the effects of…

Heat waves and air pollution are harmful, even deadly, and both are predicted to increase in frequency due to climate change. A team of researchers at the University of Southern California is helping shed light on those health risks by assessing six years of air quality, temperature and death certificate…

A consortium of bus operators, power companies and green groups on Tuesday urged the government to expedite the replacement of diesel buses with ones that run on clean energy. The Zero Emissions Mobility Consortium said concrete action is urgently needed to tackle a dangerous level of roadside air pollution in…

Recent research reveals that environmental variables like air pollution, along with high blood pressure, diabetes, and smoking, are highly predictive of people’s odds of dying. Environmental variables influence mortality riskA new study reveals that environmental variables like air pollution, together with high blood pressure, diabetes, and smoking, are highly predictive…

On Wednesday morning, the punishing heatwave that has roiled western Europe over the last week abated, heading east toward central Europe. The heat broke records across the United Kingdom and France and leaves a path of destruction in its wake: Train tracks and roads in London buckled, homes burned down…