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Proibição da circulação em Lisboa de veículos sem catalisador adiada para Março
Nunes da Silva diz que há problema com IMTT, que “tem tomado uma posição de não envolvimento no processo”. (Fotografia: Nuno Ferreira Santos) A proibição da circulação de veículos sem catalisador em...
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Aérea alemã repassará ao cliente taxa de poluição atmosférica de aviões
Custo de controle de emissão de CO2 será cobrado pela Lufthansa. Objetivo é combater mudanças climáticas com redução de poluentes. A companhia aérea alemã Lufthansa vai repassar aos clientes cerca 130...
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2012 Resolutions: Cleaner Air For Your Home In The New Year (1 of 5)
According to the EPA, most of us spend about 90 percent of our time indoors. That seems about right to me, especially in the wintertime (though in the summer, I’m able to work outside on some days, so...
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2012 Resolutions: Cleaner Air For Your Home In The New Year (2 of 5)
According to the EPA, most of us spend about 90 percent of our time indoors. That seems about right to me, especially in the wintertime (though in the summer, I’m able to work outside on some days, so...
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2012 Resolutions: Cleaner Air For Your Home In The New Year (3 of 5)
According to the EPA, most of us spend about 90 percent of our time indoors. That seems about right to me, especially in the wintertime (though in the summer, I’m able to work outside on some days, so...
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2012 Resolutions: Cleaner Air For Your Home In The New Year (4 of 5)
According to the EPA, most of us spend about 90 percent of our time indoors. That seems about right to me, especially in the wintertime (though in the summer, I’m able to work outside on some days, so...
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2012 Resolutions: Cleaner Air For Your Home In The New Year (5 of 5)
According to the EPA, most of us spend about 90 percent of our time indoors. That seems about right to me, especially in the wintertime (though in the summer, I’m able to work outside on some days, so...
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China cede à pressão e passa a divulgar dados sobre qualidade do ar
Pequim terá de informar níveis de poluição atmosférica a partir deste mês. Uso em massa de carvão para gerar energia é principal foco de contaminação. O Gabinete de Proteção ambiental de Pequim, na...
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Expanding the Panama Canal may shrink shipping industry emissions
Image courtesy of lyng883 via Flickr under Creative Commons. The Panama Canal is growing. By 2014 – 100 years after it was first completed – ships with a beam of up to 49 metres will be able to travel...
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Most carmakers must further improve carbon efficiency by 2015
Several carmakers need to make their fleets even more carbon-efficient in order to meet 2012 carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions target, according to updated data published today by the European Environment...
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EPA Issues First National Standards for Mercury Pollution
News Releases from Headquarters: EPA Issues First National Standards for Mercury Pollution from Power Plants/ Historic ‘mercury and air toxics standards’ meet 20-year old requirement to cut dangerous...
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Carros anteriores a 1992 com novas restrições de circulação em Lisboa
A Zona de Emissões Reduzidas de Lisboa vai ser alargada em Abril A Câmara Municipal de Lisboa quer proibir a circulação de veículos construídos antes de 1992, que hoje já não podem transitar na Avenida...
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CFC Ban Successful – Healing Ozone Layer Lowers UV Exposure, Report Finds
A new scientific study has confirmed that the healing of the ozone layer is also reducing people’s exposure to harmful UV rays from the sun. It will still take years before the ozone layer recovers...
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Boris Johnson, gluing pollution to the ground is no way to clean up London
Climate Rush’s message to Boris Johnson this morning, written in soot on the pavement in his street The mayor believes in spraying adhesive to the worst pollution hotspots to catch exhaust fumes. But...
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Air pollution is killing Londoners and Boris is ignoring it, warns Jenny Jones
Green candidate says mayor is ‘burying problem’ by using suppressant vehicles to glue particles near monitoring stations Jenny Jones, the Green mayoral candidate for London, has accused mainstream...
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Air Pollution, Asthma Burden Unevenly Shared Among U.S. Children
Kellen Bolden was only 10 years old when an asthma attack took his life, but his mom still remembers him as a “little man” with big aspirations. Kellen Bolden, 1990-2001. “He often said to himself,...
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F. Herbert Bormann Dies at 90; Helped Discover Acid Rain Threat
Dr. F. Herbert Bormann in 1970. (Joyce H. Dopkeen) F. Herbert Bormann, a plant ecologist whose research with colleagues on a swath of New Hampshire forest in 1971 documented a new environmental horror...
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E.P.A. Casts New Soot Standard as Easily Met
As anticipated, the Environmental Protection Agency announced on Friday that it was proposing to update and tighten national air quality standards for fine-particle soot. Somewhat surprisingly,...
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China chama de ilegais os monitoramentos estrangeiros de qualidade do ar
Uma autoridade do governo chinês demandou nesta terça-feira (5) que as embaixadas estrangeiras no país parem de divulgar informações sobre a poluição do ar, afirmando que tais ações são contrárias a...
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Malaysia Haze Points to a Regional Problem
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — For much of the year, the Petronas Towers, the world’s tallest twin buildings, are gleaming landmarks visible far from the city center here. But last weekend, the 88-story...
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