Category Archives: Air Quality

Salt Lake City currently has worst air quality in US

Posted on February 1, 2017 by Respro® UK Ltd

SALT LAKE CITY – Salt Lake City currently has the worst air quality in the country, according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s AirNow.gov.Salt Lake City is followed by Franklin, Idaho, and then Napa, California, when it comes to poor air Tuesday.The … Continue reading →

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Stockholm registers air pollution ‘as bad as Beijing’ 

Posted on January 31, 2017 by Respro® UK Ltd

Sweden may be a nation with a reputation for its green credentials, but the country’s capital city recently registered air quality as poor as Chinese capital Beijing. That’s according to Stockholm Air & Noise Analysis (SLB-analys), the authority responsible for … Continue reading →

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Air Quality Levels In Gurugram Plunge To ‘Poor’ Levels Again After Relief From A Few Rainy Days 

Posted on January 31, 2017 by Respro® UK Ltd

Central Pollution Control also declared it as the second-most polluted city in India. CPCB made this announcement on Sunday and Gaya was the most polluted city in the country for the day. The city’s air quality index (AQI) was reported … Continue reading →

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Cornwall homeowners ‘could be moved to escape air pollution’

Posted on January 31, 2017 by Respro® UK Ltd

Residents in pollution hotspots could be relocated under new clean air proposals. Cornwall Council is to discuss the plans, which could include compulsory purchases of properties in areas with “particularly poor air quality”, later. The council admitted the scheme was … Continue reading →

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Paris tries something different in the fight against smog

Posted on January 30, 2017 by Respro® UK Ltd

Last week Paris suffered its fourth smog of the winter and tried a new idea to protect its residents from the worst effects. Like many European cities, the Paris region has a well-established system of emergency actions that escalate if … Continue reading →

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Air Pollution Kills More Than 18 100 in Bulgaria Every Year

Posted on January 30, 2017 by Respro® UK Ltd

More than 18 100 die as a result of conditions caused by air pollution, public broadcaster BNR has said, citing statistics of The Lancet, a British medical journal. Plovdiv, Pleven, Pazardzhik, Sofia and Pernik are the five cities most affected, … Continue reading →

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Globe-trotting pollutants raise some cancer risks four times higher than predicted 

Posted on January 28, 2017 by Respro® UK Ltd

A new way of looking at how pollutants ride through the atmosphere has quadrupled the estimate of global lung cancer risk from a pollutant caused by combustion, to a level that is now double the allowable limit recommended by the … Continue reading →

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What you need to know about air pollution: Its importance and effective solutions

Posted on January 27, 2017 by Respro® UK Ltd

 Air pollution is now one of the most pressing environmental concerns. While nine out of the ten most polluted cities in the world lie in India and Pakistan that leaves no room for complacency amongst other countries; partly because they … Continue reading →

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