Air Quality

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Whose breath are you breathing?
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Make your own CO2 monitor - OLIVER SEILER
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Whose breath are you breathing?
an image of the air around us with arrows pointing in different directions to each other
Building Science Concepts: The air around us - SLH PLD RESOURCE
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Covid-19: We need a national ventilation scheme - STUFF Mar 2022
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Classroom ventilation assessment toolkit - MOE NZ
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Rethinking breathing: How to end the pandemic - NEWSROOM Nov 2021
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Stuff
Tiny pieces of plastic have for the first time been found floating in NZ’s air, sparking concerns about whether it may be harming people as they breathe it in. While overseas studies have detected the presence of airborne microplastics, this is the first time they have been shown to exist in this country. The findings came from research by the University of Canterbury and the Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR) scientists, and were published in the Water, Air, and Soil...
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Air aware: air quality lessons for teachers and experiments for curious kids
Air Aware is a collection of air quality lessons for schools, made up of theory, videos, activities and quizzes. Air Aware is supported by MBIE’s Unlocking Curious Minds contestable fund. Thank you to Lakeview School in Masterton, Cromwell Primary School, Goldfields Primary School and Cromwell College in Cromwell, and Aurora College in Invercargill, who worked with NIWA to test these resources during 2020.
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Asphalt roads make city air pollution worse in summer, study finds
Emissions from asphalt are a significant source of air pollutants in cities, especially in hot weather, a study shows. Researchers found that when asphalt was exposed to hot summer conditions it resulted in a 300% increase in emissions of secondary organic aerosols (SOA), an air pollutant known to have significant impacts on public health. Researchers...found commonly in roads, roofs and driveways, and heated it to between 40C and 200C in a tube furnace.