Content by tag : pollution
A citizens' collective fighting for better air quality in Brussels is appealing for Bulletin readers to volunteer for a new year-long science project.
Researchers in Antwerp are aiming to explore the effects of air pollution on children’s health, by focusing on the impact of their journey to school.
Owners of old polluting diesel vehicles will start to be fined again if they drive anywhere within the Brussels region from this Wednesday (1 July).
Antwerp is taking part in a European pilot project to test air quality sensor networks, in a bid to improve data on pollution.
The Brussels-Capital Region might have to pay back all the fines it has collected for violations of the low-emission zone (Lez).
The poorest neighbourhoods in Brussels also have the highest concentrations of fine particulates in the air.
Brussels' roads are getting more congested, with the Belgian capital the 44th most traffic-heavy city in the world, according to the latest stats from TomTom.
Scores of old diesel vehicles belonging to Belgium's federal police force are now too polluting to drive in Brussels, Antwerp and Ghent - and have been redeployed to other parts of the country ins
Some 16,000 drivers in Brussels will find their old diesel car banned from 1 January, as the criteria for the region's low-emissions zone are extended.
