Category Archives: Air Quality

Macedonian capital offers free transport to fight pollution 

Posted on February 8, 2017 by Respro® UK Ltd

Municipal authorities in Macedonia’s heavily polluted capital are offering residents free use of public transport to reduce the use of cars. Concentrations of toxic airborne particles in Skopje have been about 20 times above safe levels for the past 10 … Continue reading →

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Residential heating tops sources of PM2.5 in Danube region’s urban areas

Posted on February 7, 2017 by Respro® UK Ltd

The European Commission’s science and knowledge service, the Joint Research Centre (JRC) has evaluated sources of air pollutants in the Danube macro-region, a necessary step for the design of action plans to improve air quality. The related study showed residential … Continue reading →

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Kolkata set to beat Delhi in noxious city air 

Posted on February 6, 2017 by Respro® UK Ltd

This winter, Kolkata seems to be aiming hard for the crown for the most polluted Indian metro city, a dubious pole position currently held by New Delhi. Kolkata’s air pollution at the end of December was in the same category … Continue reading →

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100,000 may have died but there is still no justice over Indonesian air pollution 

Posted on February 6, 2017 by Respro® UK Ltd

It started with a mild cough. Muhanum Anggriawati was just 12 years old when the cough began, transforming within weeks into a violent hacking that brought up a yellowish-black liquid. At the end of last year, her father told an … Continue reading →

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Utah lawmakers push for plan to improve poor air quality 

Posted on February 3, 2017 by Respro® UK Ltd

A bipartisan group of Utah lawmakers announced plans Thursday for a series of environmental proposals to fix the state’s poor air quality, which was so bad in the Salt Lake City area this week that some students were prevented from … Continue reading →

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Air quality on cruise ships ’20 times worse’ than in a busy city centre

Posted on February 3, 2017 by Respro® UK Ltd

Passengers on a cruise ship could be inhaling “60 times higher concentrations of harmful air pollutants ” than they would in natural air settings, Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU), a German environmental association, has warned. The air quality on board a cruise … Continue reading →

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Air pollution may lead to dementia in older women 

Posted on February 3, 2017 by Respro® UK Ltd

Tiny particles that pollute the air — the kind that come mainly from power plants and automobiles — may greatly increase the chance of dementia, including dementia caused by Alzheimer’s disease, according to USC-led research. Scientists and engineers found that older women … Continue reading →

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Smog levels way above safe limits in northern Italy

Posted on February 1, 2017 by Respro® UK Ltd

“Italian cities need to breathe again,” the country’s environmental organization, Legambiente, warned on Monday, as it reported that the first month of 2017 has seen nine Italian towns pass safe limits for air pollution on at least half of the … Continue reading →

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