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About Respro® UK Ltd

Respro® Masks: Cycle masks, motorcycle masks and allergy masks. External wear for internal protection.

Polluted air is choking the city – Buses, cars are the main culprits

I couldn’t be the only one concerned about how increasingly polluted the ambient air around Kingston and St Andrew has become in recent times. Every other vehicle is spitting out thick, black smoke. One whiff of those vehicular emissions and … Continue reading →

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Thousands in southern Taiwan petition for better air quality control

Thousands of residents from southern Taiwan have petitioned online for the Legislature to pass an amendment to the Air Pollution Control Act to enable better air quality management, environmentalists said Thursday. About 7,200 residents from Pingtung County and Kaohsiung City … Continue reading →

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Air pollution in Prague starts crossing yearly quotas

Dust-related air pollution has crossed the yearly quota in some parts of Prague, mainly due to motor vehicles exhaust fumes, which leads to increased numbers of the diseases of lungs and the cardiovascular system and consequently to a higher death … Continue reading →

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Airborne particles smuggle pollutants to far reaches of globe

Pollution from fossil fuel burning and forest fires reaches all the way to the Arctic, even though it should decay long before it travels that far. Now, lab research can explain how pollution makes its lofty journey: rather than ride … Continue reading →

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Lydney awarded £44,000 for air quality surveys

A town in the Forest of Dean with air quality issues has been given a cash grant to carry out traffic surveys. Earlier this year, levels of nitrogen dioxide in Lydney were found to be above national safety levels. The … Continue reading →

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Smartphones equipped with sensors to study EU air pollution

Environmental sensor-equipped, GPS-enabled smartphones are set to be used in researching possible adverse effects of chemicals exposure to the human body, in the EU’s biggest to-date investment into environmental health research. The €8.7m Exposomics project sets out to study the … Continue reading →

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Delhi smog defies quick-fix solutions

As the spells of winter smog spur environmentalists to ring alarm bells, the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) says it is working overtime to ensure that Delhiites breathe safer air. DPCC Chairman Sanjiv Kumar says that the city’s smog cover … Continue reading →

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Air quality alert issued for the area

The N.H. Department of Environmental Services is expecting air pollution concentrations to reach unhealthy levels for sensitive individuals in populated valley areas in southwestern New Hampshire — especially in Keene — for tonight into the late morning hours Wednesday. State … Continue reading →

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