Mayor of West Midlands calls for EV battery gigafactory
The Mayor of the West Midlands Andy Street has called for an electric vehicles (EV) battery ‘gigafactory’ to be built…
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New interactive tool shows how trees improve air quality
A leading UK environmental research centre has published a new interactive calculator to raise awareness of how trees can help…
Could ‘intelligent’ exhaust valves cut emissions?
Brunel University London is the first university in the UK to research how single-cylinder intelligent valve technology could slash emissions…
Enviro Technology supply King’s College London with tech for £2m ‘supersite’
Gloucestershire-based Enviro Technology (ET) has supplied King’s College London (KCL) with technology for the new £2m air quality ‘supersite’ in…
Bradford trials air monitoring using public phone boxes
Bradford has become one of the first places in the UK to monitor air quality using high-tech public phone boxes….
Air pollution is blocking sunlight and damaging China’s solar potential
China may miss out on billions of dollars’ worth of solar power production due to air pollution reducing its sunlight,…
Black cabs fitted with air filtration technology
Ten electric cabs will be fitted with technology to reduce indoor air pollution for drivers and passengers. Previous studies have…
EarthSense win £350,000 government grant for air quality software
EarthSense has won a £350,000 grant from the government’s innovation agency, Innovate UK, to develop air quality software for local…
