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Marina Vitaglione has used a traditional photographic technique to produce otherworldly images of samples of London s air pollution.
image copyrightMarina Vitaglione
image captionDrury Way, Wembley, north-west London, sample collected in August 2020
Working alongside scientists from the London Air Quality Network, part of Imperial College London (ICL), Marina was given access to air samples from across the capital, including Brixton Road and Lewisham, south London.
image copyrightMarina Vitaglione
image captionLoampit Vale, Lewisham, south-east London (left), and Drury Way, Wembley, north-west London (right), samples collected in August 2020
Some she put on to a paper tape, using a beta-attenuation-monitoring (BAM) device, and then photographed through a microscope (below).
Could Humans Communicate With Whales?
The Geochemical and Environmental Research Group (GERG), a center within the College of Geosciences at Texas A&M University, will conduct a research program with Project CETI, the Cetacean Translation Initiative, to understand vocalizations of sperm whales off the west coast of Dominica in the Caribbean.
The research is funded by CETI, a non-profit organization. Texas A&M GERG’s role in the project is to build three massive buoys and moorings, which GERG will deploy in about 6,000 to 7,500 feet of water. The Aggie scientists will also work with the University of Haifa, Israel, to develop acoustic monitoring systems within the buoys. The large buoys are almost eight-foot-wide surface floats, with acoustic monitoring systems throughout the top 3,600 feet.
Senior transport planners and climate experts have urged transport secretary Grant Shapps and London Mayor Sadiq Khan to put an immediate stop to work on the Silvertown Tunnel to re-evaluate the scheme’s environmental impact.
In a letter to Shapps and Khan, the group of 52 academics and campaigners have called for an “emergency review” to be carried out to determine if the East London project is in line with the UK’s climate change objectives. (See below for full list of signatories.)
The group of objectors cite the government’s recent decision to intervene in the Cumbria coal mine planning row – as well as the upcoming COP26 conference – as grounds for carrying out an inquiry into the Silvertown Tunnel scheme.
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Air pollution: your questions answered
Day 1: Do you know your NO2s from your PM2.5s? Do you know if you are at risk? Our guide to understanding air pollution will set you straight
Air pollution poses a bigger health risk to children, the elderly and those with respiratory illnesses. Pic: Sarah Glover-Smith
Information on air pollution is available to the public: local authorities publish yearly reports, and interactive maps created by Defra and London Air inform people on air pollution levels on a real-time basis. But what do all these numbers mean? What pollutants should you be wary of and why? This is everything you need to know about air pollution.