THE report about the "Saharan sand" published on Friday, June 29 is interesting and demonstrates rather spectacularly to us all in the South West how far airborne pollutants might travel, if released into the atmosphere. The Herald reported on the pale pinkish dust deposited on cars and windowsills across the whole Plymouth area on Wednesday and Thursday, June 27 and 28.
IN our towns and cities there are an estimated 197 million trees and of these less than 1% have been planted in the last five years. These trees remove CO2 and other pollutants from the atmosphere, cool temperatures, help calm traffic, add value to houses and are a social amenity.
I read the article by Mark Robins (WDP, "Cut the Excuses"), looking for some proof that any action we might take will control our climate. So far, not one jot can I find. To place the blame for climate change to human activity is very wide of the mark, when you consider one single volcanic eruption can produce more pollutants in the atmosphere than all the nuclear devices ever exploded.
A NEW partnership is being planned between two councils to help reduce mercury emissions from cremations. The Government wants to reduce the amount of pollutants released into the atmosphere from crematoria and has asked all local authorities to achieve a 50% reduction in emissions from January 2013. North Tyneside Council has put together proposals for a burdensharing agreement with Newcastle City Council. The authority would continue to offer a cremation service and it would consult with funeral directors, clergy and the public over a long-term solution to the problem.
THE imminent reopening of a landfill site for household waste in Swansea, ironically, shows why recycling is important. The arguments used by recycling sceptics are well known. They question the effect that schemes to separate and recycle bottles, tins and newspapers can really have in a world where two nations -- the US and China -- pump immense amounts of pollutants into the atmosphere daily.
AS THE environmental apocalypse promised by the UN's men in white coats rumbles ever nearer, it's hardly surprising that many artists choose to engage with it, often blurring the line between art and protest as they do so. But is the work that results from this engagement likely to be any good? The curator and critic Dean Kenning doesn't think so. Earlier this year, he wrote in Art Monthly magazine: "God forbid that there should be an 'eco-art'. Art's inherent energies are dissipated as soon as it is called upon to support a cause. On one level it's not hard to see the truth in that statement. Certainly, much of the political or "message" art produced during the last century has failed to stand the test of time, and in most cases its only enduring appeal lies in its kitsch value. But e...
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THE former Chunghwa television factory is at the centre of a health scare. Demolition work on parts of the Eurocentral site in Mossend, Lanarkshire, has been halted over fears that deadly pollutants have been released into the atmosphere.
POLLUTION levels in London are so high they affect other cities in the UK and across the world and could cause millions of premature deaths, scientists claimed today. Ozone and traffic fumes in the capital are such a problem that they hit cities including Bristol, while a "global conveyor belt" of pollution carried on air currents high in the atmosphere spreads our pollutants as far as Asia.
Laboratories are full of medical and chemical pollution - viruses, cancers, diseases, which are injected into animals. Sooner or later, these pollutants will creep into the atmosphere and soil in spite of biosecurity. In some Third World countries, concentrations of viruses were put into water supplies deliberately to see the effect on people.
A north Wales cement kiln has been shut down after breaching Environment Agency rules on the level of pollutants released into the atmosphere. Castle Cement, in Padeswood, near Mold, is carrying out tests on the dioxin particles, which can be toxic, released by its kiln.
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