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Salamander Street first in Edinburgh to break annual air pollution limits

Air quality campaigners are demanding action after Salamander Street air pollution breached government ‘safe’ limits. Salamander Street has become the first street in Edinburgh, and only the second in the whole of Scotland, to breach annual air pollution limits – … Continue reading

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Diesel engine pollution linked to early deaths and costs NHS billions

Diesel engines in buses, vans, cars and trains may be responsible for thousands of premature deaths a year and cost the NHS billions of pounds, say air pollution health experts. With government figures for 2008 showing 29,000 people dying prematurely … Continue reading

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Aberdeen’s Market Street first in Scotland to break air pollution laws

Air quality monitoring data has revealed that the Aberdeen thoroughfare has become the first street in Scotland to smash through legal limits for air pollution in 2014. Each day, automatic monitors check the air for tiny dust particles that are … Continue reading

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Air pollution deaths in south Essex revealed

AIR pollution kills 375 people a year in south Essex with many more having years shaved of their lives, health experts estimate. Councils are considering lowering speed limits and urging people to reduce car use as new figures from Public … Continue reading

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Air pollution linked to one in 12 deaths in London – and it takes six months off the average Briton’s life expectancy

Pollution shortens the average Briton’s life expectancy by six months, with 1 in 12 deaths in some areas of the country partly attributable to poor quality air, health officials have said. In the most comprehensive warning yet over the health … Continue reading

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Pollution brings spike in cases for respiratory physiotherapists

A combination of pollution and sand blown northwards from the Sahara caused several days of reduced air quality, with eastern England particularly blighted. Helen Jefford, specialist physiotherapist with Greenwich Community Health Services in London, part of Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, … Continue reading

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UK smog: Nitrogen doesn’t just cause air pollution – it is a huge threat to Britain’s wildlife too, experts warn

The nitrogen pollution contributing to Britain’s smog poses the biggest threat to wildlife that the public has never heard of – with the potential to wipe out everything from clover to butterflies in eco-systems across the country – experts have … Continue reading

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Smoggy Sand: How Deserts Spread Air Pollution

Sand can blow a long way—as residents in suddenly smoggy London are learning For the last few days, the skyline of London—so often an indifferent gray—has resembled Los Angeles in the 1960s, or Beijing. A nasty bout of smog has … Continue reading

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