September 27, 2011
More measures to clean up London’s air in areas of busy traffic have been unveiled by the Mayor today. This includes the announcement that Edgware Road Tube station will soon feature an innovative ‘green wall’ to help trap harmful pollution. The initiatives, announced on World Environmental Health Day, are part of the London Clean Air ...
August 19, 2011
Transport for London (TfL) have announced Eminox and HJS have been awarded a contract to install specialist pollution reducing equipment on some London buses. The innovative TfL pilot will be carried out on 18 buses that will have NOx abatement systems called Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) fitted, half supplied by each manufacturer. The abatement system ...
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July 29, 2011
Localised badger culling in response to bovine tuberculosis (TB) outbreaks increases the risk of infection in nearby herds, according to a new analysis. The study, by researchers at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling at Imperial College London, is published today in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters. The findings ...
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July 27, 2011
Research sponsored by London Councils and Keep Britain Tidy into residents’ priorities for council expenditure reveals that clean streets are an expectation, but education, health, investments in the future, housing, transport, community safety and effectively dealing with anti-social behaviour get top priority. Londoners take it for granted that their streets get properly cleaned, but would ...
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