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Day: 6 June 2007

Bristol development will be first to meet Carbon Challenge

The site of a former hospital in Bristol is to be used to demonstrate that zero carbon building is economically feasible on a large scale.

Sydney’s traffic pollution could kill more people than road accidents – Lord Mayor

If Sydney does not act now to tackle pollution, poor air quality could be killing one person every four hours by 2030 - eight times the current rate for road deaths in the city.

Particulates tracked by satellite

American scientists have been using satellites to help gauge the levels of airborne particulate matter in an effort to build up a broader picture than might be possible with widely-scattered monitoring stations.

Redefinition of waste should increase recycling

Classifying a host of waste products as raw materials could break down the administrative barriers that currently make them difficult to reuse.

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