Air quality in Europe: 2020 report
Better air quality has led to a significant reduction of premature deaths over the past decade in Europe. However, the European Environment Agency’s (EEA) latest official data show that almost all Europeans
Carbon Monoxide
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Beijing to monitor PM2.5 concentration in schools
Beijing's health authority plans to establish an air quality monitoring system in schools, the Beijing Morning Post reported. It will be the first time for the city to monitor PM2.5 particulate matter
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Ozone Pollution in India Destroys Crops That Could Have Fed 94 Million of its Poor
In a single year alone, India's ozone pollution damaged millions of tons of the country's staple crops which could have fed a third of its poor. According to a study published last month in Geophysical
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Hazelwood coalmine fire inquiry report due as Morwell ponders lawsuit
The report of an inquiry into the Hazelwood coalmine fire will be released on Tuesday as residents of the nearby town of Morwell consider a class action lawsuit. The 400-page report is expected to be
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Nearly half of global trash is burned, creating more pollution than reported: study
Rampant trash-burning is throwing more pollution and toxic particles into the air than governments are reporting, according to a scientific study estimating that more than 40 percent of the world’s garbage
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Cutting-edge pollution monitor for Ghaziabad soon
GHAZIABAD: The city will soon get a continuous ambient monitoring system that will display real-time analysis of air pollution levels. In it, levels of commonly used parameters for measuring air pollution
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Only 6 cities meet latest air quality standard
ONLY nine of 161 Chinese cities reached the new — and stricter — air quality monitoring standards in the first half of the year, according to the Ministry of Environmental Protection. The six were named
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Merely 5% Chinese cities reach air quality standards
BEIJING -- Only nine of 161 Chinese cities reached the new -- and stricter -- air quality monitoring standards in the first half of this year, according to the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP).
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City air heavily polluted with lead, cadmium and CO
KARACHI: The air of the city is polluted with high levels of lead and cadmium that pose a grave risk to public health, says a recent study that also points out that the average concentration of these trace
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China's air quality improves in H1
The air quality in 60.3 percent of days in the first half of the year met national standards, up 1.6 percent from the same period in 2013, the Ministry of Environmental Protection said on Monday. Major
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Detection of molecular gas in an ALMA [CII]-identified Submillimetre Galaxy at z = 4.44
<p>Astronomers have studied the carbon monoxide in a galaxy over 12 billion light years from Earth and discovered that it's running out of gas, quite literally, and headed for a 'red and dead'