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MTP gets instrument to detect, measure greenhouse gases
Ghanaian Times
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August 26, 2025
AN air quality monitoring and agric greenhouse gas instrumentation system have been installed at the Multi-Cultural Technology Park (MTP) at Fumesua in the Ashanti Region, to detect and measure 10 greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide,...
Great reveal: how air pollution masked global warming, confusing adaptation plans
Environment Journal
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August 26, 2025
Efforts to curb sulphur dioxide revealed more planetary heating than we thought and faster temperature rise. While this will be short-lived, the skies above directly impact local and regional climate conditions, and our policies need to reflect...
Walters: Renewal of state cap and trade program to cut emissions is fraught with issues
The Mercury News - California
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August 26, 2025
While the Capitol is fixated on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s drive to rearrange California’s congressional districts in order to counter a pro-Republican gerrymander in Texas, there are several other pithy issues to resolve and just three weeks remaining...
9 million at risk from petrochemical air pollution in Taiwan: Greenpeace
Focus Taiwan
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August 26, 2025
Taipei, Aug. 26 (CNA) More than 9 million people in Taiwan live within 5 kilometers of petrochemical production facilities, placing them in high-risk zones for air pollution exposure, according to Greenpeace. In a report released on Tuesday, the...
Pune: NGT Forms Committee to Probe Pawana River Pollution After PMRDA & Zilla Parishad Blame Each Other
Free Press Journal
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August 26, 2025
Pimpri-Chinchwad: The Western Zone of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has ordered the formation of a committee to investigate the pollution in the Pawana River and the reason behind it. The order comes after, in a recent hearing, contradicting...
NGT directs Pune police, pollution control board to enforce noise regulation during Ganesh festival
The Indian Express
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August 26, 2025
The National Green Tribunal’s (NGT’s) western zonal bench in Pune Monday directed the Pune police and Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) to strictly enforce noise regulations during the upcoming Ganesh festival and submit a detailed...
US Open lit by lights designed to cut light pollution
The Hindu
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August 26, 2025
When the court lights flicker on at the U.S. Open, tennis stars shine under illumination designed to cut light pollution. The wedge-shaped lamps around the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows direct light onto the...
School buses should also go electric to help curb pollution: CM Rekha Gupta
Newsd
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August 26, 2025
In a bid to combat the city’s persistent pollution problems, Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta emphasized the transition to electric school buses as a beneficial step forward. This statement was made public during the flagging off of electric buses...
Diesel Emissions Made Easy: Understanding Diesel Particulate Filters (DPFs)
Engineering News
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(Virtual Showroom) Cleaner Air Through Advanced Filtration Diesel Particulate Filters (DPFs) play a crucial role in reducing harmful emissions from diesel engines. At HJS Emission Technology SA, we provide world-class, patented DPF solutions that...
SA’s wastewater crisis: Leaks, pollution, and the urgent need for reform
BizNews
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It’s a huge problem because scientists know where it is going – straight into our streams and rivers! We see clear evidence of this in E. coli (bacteria) monitoring data within the local rivers and streams. An abundance of E. coli in freshwater...
Karnataka State Pollution Control Board sets up mobile immersion tanks for Ganesha idol immersion in Mysuru
The Times of India
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August 26, 2025
The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) has arranged mobile immersion tanks across Mysuru for the immersion of Ganesha idols. These mobile tankers will be stationed at various locations, including Metagalli Police Station,...
Tourism, global warming leading to more bird strikes in Japan
Nikkei Asia
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Transportation Migratory Baikal teal numbers rise amid recovery in flight numbers An aircraft crash in December 2024 at Muan International Airport in South Korea is believed to have been caused by a bird strike. © Reuters SHO FUJITA August 26,...
Federal rollbacks and urban pollution threaten the air at Utah national parks
KUER - Utah
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August 26, 2025
Every Tuesday, Bryce Canyon National Park scientist Rhiannon Garrard gives the park’s atmosphere a weekly check-up. At the air quality monitoring station on a hill above the canyon rim, she checked off her mental to-do list on a recent August...
Twiggy Forrest whitewashes his own green emissions
Financial Review
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August 26, 2025
You’ve got to give it to Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest: he’s fluent in double speak. When Fortescue released its annual report on Tuesday, he doubled down on his climate saviour persona. Despite claiming the “world had moved on” from caring about...
China To Introduce Absolute Emissions Caps In Carbon Market By 2027
Arise News
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August 26, 2025
China will tighten its carbon trading system by introducing absolute emissions caps in selected industries from 2027, marking a significant shift in its climate policy, the State Council announced on Monday evening. The plan, detailed in a...
Report: Emissions data shows Australia can go big on 2035 target
Energy Magazine
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August 25, 2025
The Department of Climate Change Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) has unveiled the latest Quarterly Update of Australia’s National Greenhouse Gas Inventory report. The Quarterly Update of Australia’s National Greenhouse Gas Inventory:...
The U.S. and EU May Soon Share Emissions Standards
Road and Track Magazine
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August 25, 2025
Automotive trade discussions between the U.S. and the European Union have been tense, to say the least, but there is a resolution on the horizon. That's what a recent joint statement suggests, as the group of nation states and the U.S. hash out...
China's carbon market to introduce absolute emissions caps from 2027
Channel News Asia
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August 26, 2025
BEIJING: China will tighten its carbon trading market by introducing absolute emissions caps in some industries for the first time starting by 2027, China's cabinet said on Monday evening (Aug 25). The absolute caps will be implemented first in...
Concern over Lunga river pollution
Solomon Star
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August 26, 2025
Dear Editor – I am writing to express my deep concern about the practice of dumping rubbish into the Lunga River in East Honiara. This river was a place for fishing, washing, swimming and gathering, is now under serious threat due to careless and...
350 Australian Businesses Sign Letter Calling for 75 Percent Emissions Cut
The Epoch Times
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August 26, 2025
Clouds can be seen above power-generating wind turbines at the Capital Wind Farm, located at Lake George, near the town of Bungendore, Australia, on March 25, 2025. David Gray/AFP via Getty Images Over 350 companies are calling for more ambitious...