Air Pollution in World: Real-time Air Quality Index Visual Map

How polluted is the air today? Check out the real-time air pollution map, for more than 100 countries.

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In Germany, five deaths and several injuries caused by firecrackers - not to mention frightened people, pets and wild animals - have once again turned New Year's Eve into an antisocial celebration.
Here are some of the legacies in Cologne-Mülheim as they appeared on New Year's morning.
(January 2025)
#Silvester, #Böller, #firecrackers, #Luftverschmutzung, #Müll, #Lärm, #Rücksichtslosigkeit, #recklessness, #air_pollution, #garbage, #noise
Mayors slammed for air pollution inaction after fire

台北時報
Foul fumes found to pose pollinator problems

A team led by researchers at the University of Washington has discovered a major cause for a drop in nighttime pollinator activity—and people are largely to blame.

Phys.org
It's little known, but Tashkent has among the worst air pollution in the world https://globalvoices.org/2024/01/22/uzbekistan-is-finally-starting-to-address-its-air-pollution-problem/ #air_pollution
Uzbekistan is finally starting to address its air pollution problem

In December 2023, Tashkent recorded the second-highest air pollution levels, coming behind only India’s Delhi.

Global Voices

Crazy …

SUVs drive trend for new cars to grow 1cm wider in UK and EU every two years, says report (The Guardian)

Bigger cars more likely to kill people, release more toxic gas and are outgrowing design of cities.

New cars have become so bloated that half of them are too wide to fit in parking spaces designed to the minimum on-street standards in many countries, the report found.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/22/cars-growing-wider-europe-report

#cars #suv #uk #vs #road_kill #exhaust #pollution #air_pollution #parking #road_safety

SUVs drive trend for new cars to grow 1cm wider in UK and EU every two years, says report

Bigger cars more likely to kill people, release more toxic gas and are outgrowing design of cities

The Guardian

Формалин на Новый год

Речь совсем не про какое-то там " сохранение новогоднего настроения ", если кто-то вдруг так подумал, прочитав название. Никакого переносного смысла. Под катом — небольшое IMHO на околопраздничную тему, про НЕочевидную связь «живых» новогодних елок, приземного озона больших городов и канцерогенного формальдегида. Живую ёлку на Новый год не ставим!

https://habr.com/ru/articles/783614/

#формальдегид #что_такое #как_пахнет #формалин #аллергия #вред #канцероген #безопасность #влияние_на_организм #формальдегид_в_мебели #в_чем_где_содержится #как_используется #действие_на_организм #дсп_выделяет_формальдегид #дсп_формальдегид #искусственная_елка #декоративная_елка #новый_год_атмосфера #новый_год_елка #новый_год_ёлочка #зажигает_ёлки #новый_год_идеи #озонотерапия #озонатор #озоновый_слой #озон_химия #озон_газ #тропосферный_озон #приземный_озон #озон_елка #озон_ёлки #ЛОС #летучие #органические #соединения #ЛОС_вред #ЛОС_в_воздухе #лос_запах #лос_источники #лос_список #лос_это #лос_перечень #лос_что_это #пинен #альфа_пинен #альфапинен_это #апинен #альфа_и_бета_пинен #лимонен #линалоол #окисление #α_и_βпинены #токсичность #бытовые_ароматизаторы #ароматические_свечи #хвойный_аромат #air_pollution #tropospheric_ozone #ozone #nitrogen_oxides #оксиды_азота #volatile_organic_compounds #PM25 #VOC #загрязнение_воздуха #фотохимический_смог #смог #оргтехника #никто_не_читает_теги

Формалин на Новый год

Речь совсем не про какое-то там " сохранение новогоднего настроения ", если кто-то вдруг так подумал, прочитав название. Никакого переносного смысла. Под катом — небольшое IMHO на...

Хабр
The media need to cover the climate crisis as seriously as it covered Covid

With some exceptions, the news industry is still not responding to the true scale and danger of global heating

The Guardian

Almost everyone in Europe is breathing toxic air (The Guardian)

Guardian investigation finds 98% of Europeans breathing highly damaging polluted air linked to 400,000 deaths a year.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/20/revealed-almost-everyone-in-europe-breathing-toxic-air

> Europe’s pollution divide: see how your area compares: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2023/sep/20/europes-pollution-divide-see-how-your-area-compares

#pollution #air_pollution #traffic #industry #domestic_heating #agriculture #small_particles #health #pm2.5 #public_health_crisis #who

Revealed: almost everyone in Europe is breathing toxic air

Guardian investigation finds 98% of Europeans breathing highly damaging polluted air linked to 400,000 deaths a year

The Guardian

European governments shrinking railways in favour of road-building, report finds (The Guardian)

The length of motorways in Europe grew 60% between 1995 and 2020 while railways shrank 6.5%.

We should be talking less about fares and a lot more about infrastructure.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/19/european-governments-railways-road-building-report-motorways-funding-rail

#climate #climate_change #climate_crisis #europe #eu #european_union #transport #cars #public_transport #roads #rail #railways #infrastructure #greenhouse_gas_emissions #greenhouse_gas #air_pollution

European governments shrinking railways in favour of road-building, report finds

Rail networks in most countries have been starved of funding while motorways lengthen, study shows

The Guardian