On 17th November16 we presented the project and the measuring device CAPTOR at the Umweltkulturpraktikum (UKP) from GLOBAL 2000. At UKP environmental interested students get involved in different projects and they take part at seminars about various environmental issues. We explained basics on ozone pollution, presented the self built CAPTOR and asked them on their[…]
Four out of five Spaniards have breathed air contaminated by ozone. The central Government and twelve autonomous regions are failing to meet their legal obligations, having not drawn up the plans required by law to improve air quality in the worst-affected areas. More than 37 million people in Spain breathed ozone-polluted air in the spring[…]
Last summer the CAPTOR-Team Austria was waiting patiently for the first 3 CAPTOR measuring devices to arrive. After beeing built and tested in Spain we got 3 CAPTORS. We installed them at 3 official measuring stations from the Federal Environmental Agency (in Illmitz) and the the Air Quality department of the Province of Lower Austria[…]