Mayor promises action on air quality around London’s waterways
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan has promised that he would tackle the issue of air pollution caused by barges and narrowboats in London, promising to ‘make the same progress in relation to cleaning up our rivers as we’ve made cleaning up our roads.’
Dust storms drive rise in hospital admissions for asthma and heart failure
Climate change is driving an increase in dust storms and research undertaken in the American Southwest, indicates this will cause an increase in hospital emergency department admissions.