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  1. Mar 18, 2024 · Using innovative technologies, cities are expanding air monitoring capabilities, deploying lower-cost sensors to widen spatial coverage and identity pollution hotspots. Signatory cities of the Clean Air Accelerator use low-cost sensors, with 35 of 50 cities using them in their air quality networks.

  2. Mar 3, 2022 · Cities are epicentres for anthropogenic inputs into the environment across the globe. Specifically, urban runoff is a major pathway for pollution to contaminate aquatic ecosystems. As urban areas...

    • Vertical Forests. Vertical forests may look like the work of science fiction, but thanks to Italian architect Stefano Boeri the first vertical forest towers, the ‘Bosco Verticale’ were completed in Milan in 2014.
    • Smog Free Tower. Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde created the ‘smog-free project’ as a campaign in the hope of inspiring people to think how to get cleaner air in public spaces.
    • Electric Self-Driving Cars. One of the keys to reducing air pollution levels in our cities will be reducing the number of cars burning fossil fuels. With road transport currently responsible for 30% of airborne particulate emissions in European countries and up to 50% in lower economy countries.
    • Bike and Scooter Sharing Schemes. To prevent the roads of our future cities simply getting clogged up with electric self-driving cars, we will need a mix of different transportation options.
  3. Oct 29, 2020 · As the first study of its kind, this study comprehensively examines the urban form effects on air quality in cities of different population sizes, at different development levels, and in...

    • Lu Liang, Peng Gong
    • 2020
  4. Nov 16, 2021 · How cities are cutting carbon. Home to the majority of the global human population, urban areas make an outsized contribution to carbon emissions. What can they do to reach net zero by the middle...

  5. Sep 6, 2022 · Realizing those dangers, several municipalities are taking action to combat airborne contaminants. Ahead of the International Day of Clean Air for blue skies on 7 September, an annual event that stresses the urgent need to improve air quality, we look at five of those cities.

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  7. Jan 5, 2024 · Sediment contamination has emerged as a pivotal concern within aquatic ecosystems, posing complex challenges to both ecological integrity and human health. This review comprehensively examines the current state of sediment pollution, with a focus on the physicochemical interactions and bioavailability of pollutants embedded in sediment matrices.

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