Ecotech, a provider of environmental monitoring equipment and services for more than three decades, and AerosolConsultingML, a European research consultant specializing in aerosol physics and engineering, have entered into a business partnership.
Queen’s University Belfast has won a national environment award. The top award was for a national campaign for finding the greenest communities, councils and companies in Britain.
The Worldwatch Institute has reported that the subsidies for fossil fuel and renewable energy are increasing. The value of fossil fuel subsidies in 2012 is estimated to be between $775 billion and $1 trillion, while the value of renewable energy subsidies were $66 billion in 2010. The total subsidies for renewable energy are higher per kWh though they are lower in terms of value.
Union Pacific Railroad has announced an investment of $20 million for testing new emissions-reducing locomotive technology. In California, two Union Pacific rail yards will be the base for 25 experimental locomotives.
The European Union’s (EU) policy that ships docking at European harbors utilize fuels with less than 0.1% sulphur content by weight as opposed to the 4.5% sulphur content allowed previously in areas outside the realm of Sulphur Emission Control came into effect from January 2010.
Risk analysts have confirmed that there is a significant potential risk of river and other types of water pollution due to the release of contaminated wastewater by hydraulic fracturing or fracking wells generating natural gas in the Marcellus Shale region.
Based on the latest calculations of Andrea Pozzer, Max Planck scientist, heavy air pollution resulting in unhealthy and difficult breathing can become true for most of the world population in 2050 in case no action is taken. Especially North India, China and the Middle East may be impacted by a significant decrease in air quality.
Increasing industrial activity is deteriorating air quality and posing a major health risk. The WHO estimates that annually 1.3 million deaths occur due to urban outdoor air pollution. If emissions continue at the present levels, then by 2050, most of the people in the world will be affected by unhealthy air quality. In order to address this drastic deterioration of worldwide air quality, effective new government policies and action has to be undertaken.
Satellite measurements show that nitrogen dioxide in the lower atmosphere over parts of Europe and the US has fallen over the past decade. More than 15 years of atmospheric observations have revealed trends in air quality.
A study to investigate the levels of dangerous metals in the Faversham Creek and Oare Creek has been performed by Robert Gunning, a student at the University of Greenwich. Gunning, who is pursuing a degree in Environmental Sciences, conducted this nine-month research. This study was performed on the marshes, while earlier studies were done on the mud flats of the creeks.
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