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Acoustic landscape monitoring suggested as a game-changer for biodiversity improvement

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AgriSound team member Calum Pheby with “Polly” What’s described as the world’s first fully automated acoustic ‘panoramic’ landscape monitoring system, which can report in real-time on the landscape of natural sounds in a given area, is being developed by bioacoustics firm AgriSound.

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Continuous monitors protect famous rivers

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The ecology of these rivers is therefore extremely important, and a network of 21 continuous water monitoring stations has recently been established for Southern Water, in compliance with its abstraction licence for the Testwood water supply works near Southampton. The instrumentation firm behind it, Meteor Communications, explains.

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Strengthen red route pollution monitoring to save lives, says London air report

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The report makes a number of recommendations to the Mayor of London to tackle the city’s air pollution, including: Strengthen monitoring of pollution from London’s red routes and incorporate new monitoring of air quality emissions for the Silvertown Tunnel project.

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London sees 60 percent spike in e-bike fires

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These dangers are also present in electric car batteries. Key to addressing this risk is proper EV battery maintenance and effective health monitoring technologies. Protecting against thermal runaway in electric vehicle batteries is crucial to helping keep people safe. “As

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Solar-powered system gives efficiency boost to desalination

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Researchers in Canada have designed a device that produces drinking water from seawater using an evaporation process driven largely by solar power, with efficiency levels said to be five times greater than offered by current desalination techniques. As a result, these systems require frequent maintenance and cannot operate continuously. “The

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US air pollution monitoring network has gaps in coverage

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The lack of air-quality monitoring capabilities across the US affects the health of millions of people and disproportionately impacts minority and low socioeconomic-status communities, say researchers in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology Letters. To assess the monitoring gaps, Apte and colleagues compared PM 2.5

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How remote monitoring can contribute to operational success

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Whether it is to minimise the impact of increasingly extreme weather events, reducing health risks or simply to streamline operational expenditure – digital monitoring and remote services can provide long term value. This can mean that key personnel are able to operate, monitor or maintain equipment.