Flatburn is an open-source, mobile pollution detector intended to let people measure air quality cheaply. Air pollution is a major public health problem: The World Health Organization has estimated ...

A new self-powered water sensor uses wave energy to monitor pollutants like heavy metals, microplastics, and pesticides - no battery needed. The innovation integrates two core components. First, a ...

Milford risk information provider Environmental Data Resources (EDR) launched a new tool to detect low-level indoor air pollution. The EDR Vec App enables environmental consultants to screen ...

MIT researchers have created a mobile, low-cost air pollution detector called Flatburn. MIT News Office reports that the team behind the initiative has calibrated the device to the same standard as ...

It may look like a discarded piece of plumbing or a message in a bottle bobbing about aimlessly in the river, but Queensland University of Technology's humble "Drifter" hides some serious kit with a ...

Beehives and their contents are a sensitive detector of lead emissions, a study of Canadian urban apiaries showed. By Veronique Greenwood Organic things can carry coded messages about their home ...

Ambassador Gertrude Angote, Kenya's Permanent Representative to UNEP and the United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON) during the launch of air pollution detector at Kakamega School in Kakamega County ...

Air pollution is a major public health problem: The World Health Organization has estimated that it leads to over 4 million premature deaths worldwide annually. Still, it is not always extensively ...