Category Archives: Europe

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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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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Poland to curb imports of low-quality coal to fight air pollution 

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Respro® UK Ltd

Poland plans to curb imports of unsorted coal to improve the material its citizens use to warm their homes during winter and improve air quality in heavily polluted cities, the energy ministry said late on Wednesday. Cities such as fast-modernizing … 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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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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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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