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Get updates here on selected items of news and view relevant to clean air in Bishopson. This treatment complements what you'll find via our social media feeds. Disclaimer! we are not pretending to offer a comprehensive news service on clean air! but other sections of this site point you to further information and definitive sources...
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As part of our Clean Air Day activities, two volunteers from Clean Air Bishopston visited Ashley Down Primary School to work with Year 5/6 pupils in monitoring the air quality at their school gates at drop off and pick up time.
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You can see the two CAZ options BCC are consulting on here For a useful summary of the two options being put forward for consultation, see this video made by BCC
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Mothers exposed to 'high levels' of air pollution in the week before delivery have much higher chance of being admitted to intensive care. See more on this here
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No CAZ scheme can be expected to work immediately. But a plan that it is estimated would take at least 10 years in some areas of the city to produce air quality that complies with legal standards....... For more details on this depressing and unacceptable possibility, see here
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The latest newsletter from the UWE based, but European wide, air pollution study group. It includes an interview with Andrew Edwards, Air Quality Project Manager at BCC. The newsletter can be read here
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This latest research finds billions of nanoparticles from exhausts and industrial processes are in our hearts, brains and probably every organ of our bodies. Further details on this can be seen in the Guardian article here
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Defending the Council's long delay in deciding how best to tackle the city's air pollution, Mayor Martin Rees argues that it is essential to ensure social justice is not sidelined while taking action to achieve environmental justice. The interview with Air Quality News can be seen here
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Scientists at Lancaster University are about to test a scheme using different species of evergreen hedges planted along school fences designed to mitigate air pollution levels in schools adjacent to busy roads. Read more on this project here
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This worrying video demonstrates how we are exposing children to dangerous levels of air pollution on a daily basis, both on the way to school and sometimes in school itself.
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This recently developed Swedish method for accurate measurement of air pollutants like NO2 - and already operational, has the potential to cover wider areas than existing monitors and is probably also a cheaper technology. Let's hope Bristol will be lining up to be among the first UK cities to adopt these optical nano-sensors
