A study by the World Economic Forum warns that the current consumption model will cause a 36% increase in the number of delivery vehicles on the roads of the 100 largest cities in the world by 2030 and 32% more emissions. Earlier this year, many municipalities in the Netherlands proposed to ban fossil-fuel delivery vehicles […]
At the end of April the European Union has been studying the risk of expansion of the African Swine Fever (ASF). They wanted to know what role feed and transport play in the transmission of this virus that is beginning to enter Europe through Romania. In this study, the EU concluded that African Swine Fever […]
The Brachyspira hyodysenteriae is the bacteria that causes one of the most contagious and worrying diseases in hogs, The Swine Dysentery. When one farm gets infected it is very difficult to do a massive cleanout in the farm and eliminate the strain because is highly resistant to approved antibiotics and chemicals. In many farms, pigs […]
One of the most important challenges farms are currently facing, and more specifically broiler and swine farms, is the high bacterial load that accumulates in the facilities and the consequences it entails for the production and health of the farm’s animals. That is why farms implement a biosecurity protocol to control 100% effectively all the […]
The European Parliament (EP) calls for a stricter application of European air quality legislation. Likewise, that new restrictions be placed on substances that are now unregulated, but harmful to health. And, in addition, the creation of a “watch list” of those harmful substances. The plenary session of the European Parliament has approved a report on […]
More than half of Spain is wreathed in air containing excessive levels of particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide and ozone. A pedestrian in Toledo is breathing polluted air from a traffic jam in Madrid’s Gran Vía avenue. And in the Sierra Norte, outside of Madrid, hundreds of people from the capital spend their weekends thinking they are […]
Studies confirm that pollution reduces our life expectancy by 2 years. And it not only affects the respiratory system but pollution also affects cardiovascular health causing heart attacks, strokes and thrombi. The World Heart Federation (WHF), the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), the American Heart Association (AHA) and the American College of Cardiology (ACC) have […]
One in five deaths in the world is caused by air pollution caused by the use of fossil fuels, such as coal, gasoline or diesel. The new research, published in the journal ‘Environmental Research’, doubles that number and concludes that 8.7 million people died in 2018 from fossil & fuels polution alone. Normally the air […]
After a very satisfactory pilot test in the Santa Isabel park area with more than 80% reduction of pollutants present in the air, the city of Murcia considers prescribing the application of our product in the next urban projects of the city, the most ambitious being the modernization of the Murcia Rio East and West […]
Within the Rànquing ISGlobal project that studies the impact on health of various environmental factors typical of life in the city. The study carried out by the Barcelona Institute of Global Medicine (ISGlobal) together with the Swiss Institute of Tropical and Public Health (Swiss TPH) and the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands has concluded […]