In case you missed it - we've created a new animation about #WoodBurning. Thinking of installing a wood stove? Take two minutes to watch this first! Burning wood and solid fuels at home releases tiny particles of soot and dust that go deep into our organs, causing us #Health damage.

Do you know the hidden cost of wood burning?

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We have a new Minister for Roads, Justin Madders MP. Let's make sure he hears the need to take diesel cars emitting excess nitrogen oxides off our roads loud and clear! Send your email now with our quick e-action. 💪 💚

Act now to protect children from toxic diesel

For over 10 years, successive Governments have known that diesel cars are polluting our air far more than the law allows, and have done next to nothing about it. To date, excess emissions from diesel…

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Three postcards, one message: Andy Burnham, deliver a Clean Air Act. Pick your favourite and send it to him at No. 10 today. mumsforlungs.justpost.cards #AirPollution #Health

For GOD'S SAKE. Massive landowners call for ban on disposable BBQs, but at the same time call for "a lifting of the ban on controlled burning" 'You oiks shouldn't burn moorland - that's OUR job' Entitled double standards. Ban both. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Calls to ban disposable barbecues in England and Wales over wildfire risk

Lib Dems and many Labour MPs join farmers, landowners and firefighters in urging temporary prohibition

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Great article about residential wood burning and wood smoke pollution by a Canadian journalist whose focus is on sustainability. (With an included kind mention of DSAWSP.)

Where there's smoke, there's a health hazard for homeowners

Woodburning is a major source of harmful pollution in many communities, yet there is critical lack of awareness about this serious health and environmental issue.

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Is London's Air Really Cleaner Now?

YouTube video by Everything Electric TECH

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Fire-promoting summer days rose from fewer than 10 to around 25 across parts of Southern Europe since 1981. Annual fire counts fell about 40%, but hotter, drier weather may be raising harder-to-control risk. doi.org/hcc5r6

Likelihood of wildfires in Southern Europe has doubled since the 80s, study shows

Summer days featuring conditions that promote wildfire ignition, intensity and spread have more than doubled across large parts of the Iberian Peninsula, France, Italy and Greece since 1981, according to a study in Scientific Reports.

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Wood burning reintroduces lead pollution into the air #Airpollution #Woodsmoke www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Wood burning is reintroducing lead pollution into the air, US scientists find

Study of samples from seven winters suggests neurotoxic metal coming from wood itself rather than old paint

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Children have very little say in the air they breathe. But they're very welcome to have a say here! Help yours write a message to Andy Burnham asking for clean air. #AirPollution is the second leading risk factor for death in children under five in the UK. Let's get our new PM to change this.

Prime Minister Burnham: we need clean air now!

Andy Burnham is our new Prime Minister, and he has the opportunity to deliver a new Clean Air Act that protects the health of everyone. Send him a postcard today and ask him to make clean air a…

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“One of the most significant—and least publicly understood—sources [of air pollution in the Hudson Valley] is wood smoke. That revelation is difficult for many people to accept…”

What's Polluting the Hudson Valley's Air?

The Hudson Valley has long been known for its fresh air. Until the air changes. Air pollution does not always arrive as an orange sky. It can come from traffic, industry, cooking, a neighbor’s woodsto...

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My film ‘Fires and Fascism’ shows how community action against wildfires is a valuable and effective way to respond. It’s available in French. Get in touch to organise a screening: peteknapp1@proton.me Trailers: www.fires-and-fascism.co.uk @lessoulevements.bsky.social

More than 30,000 children in the UK have developed asthma from illegally high diesel emissions. Without action, there will be 12,000 more childhood cases by 2040. Watch our film, then email our leaders demanding action. www.mumsforlungs.org/news/the-die... #AirPollution #Diesel

This really exposes one of the flaws in the way air quality levels are reported. DEFRA's system is showing low #AirPollution despite huge peaks across Greater Manchester due to the wildfires. The same peaks in neighbourhoods are missed when people burn wood in their homes. #Health #ToxicAir

Mike Hinford@mikehinford.bsky.social · last mo.

I've been doing some analysis on the sensor data. Manchester Piccadilly is about 11 miles from the Dovestone wildfire. Hourly PM2.5 exceeded 100 µg/m³, yet DAQI stayed ‘Low’. Its rolling 24-hour PM2.5 mean smooths away short, severe smoke peaks. The hourly European AQI shows what DAQI misses.

To see the climate crisis, step out of your front door. "In an area stretching from Kent to Lincolnshire, the average hottest day of the year was 4.5C warmer in the last decade than in 1961-1990" Piece by Ajit Niranjan on today's state of UK climate report. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Unprecedented’ changes in UK climate are normalising extremes, report says

Annual State of the UK Climate analysis finds last four years in UK are in top five hottest on record

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We're calling for immediate public health warnings after wildfire smoke has blanketed parts of Greater Manchester. As @lizgdfy.bsky.social says here, "Parents are understandably worried about their children breathing this air. Why are Greater Manchester residents not being warned?"

No health warnings as wildfire smoke engulfs Greater Manchester

Campaigners are calling for immediate public health warnings after wildfire smoke blanketed parts of Greater Manchester, with air pollution levels recorded at up to 13 times the World Health Organizat...

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Ultrafine particles: 'small size gives them a very large surface area relative to their mass, allowing them to penetrate deep into the lungs, bypass respiratory defenses + reach the bloodstream +, via the olfactory pathway through the nose, the brain directly.' medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07...

Ultrafine air particles may drive 2 million premature deaths each year

Ultrafine particles (UFPs) –smaller than 100 nanometres and invisible to the naked eye—contribute substantially to illness and mortality worldwide. That is the finding of an international study led by...

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IT'S OFFICIAL: judgment lands today in the #Diesel emissions trial. The diesel scandal isn't history - and the real scandal is that millions of illegally polluting cars are still on our roads today, making children sick. Watch our new film, then email our leaders demanding action. #AirPollution

The diesel scandal - still making our kids sick — Mums for Lungs

10th July 2026 Watch our new hard-hitting film about the diesel scandal and its impacts on children’s health.

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Thousands of bathing sites across Europe, officially rated 'clean', are contaminated with chemicals of concern, according to an investigation by @correctiv.org. Mercury + old style fire retardants were the pollutants most often found: 🧵 correctiv.org/en/europe/20...

Pesticides, Mercury, Lead: How Clean is Your Bathing Site Really?

Swimming waters at thousands of sites across Europe are contaminated with chemical pollutants, as this map by CORRECTIV reveals.

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Reducing #AirPollution is a massive win for health AND economy, as this new report from @cleanairfund.bsky.social shows. Cleaning up our air could result in 38 million additional working days by 2050 - that’s approx 168,000 full-time working years returned to the UK economy.

Net zero policies could deliver £7.7bn economic boost through cleaner air

The UK’s journey to net zero could generate billions of pounds for the economy by improving air quality and reducing illness, according to a new report from the Clean Air Fund. The report, The Clean A...

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Simon Birkett, Clean Air in London@cleanairlondon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#CleanAirAct 70th anniversary is Sun 5 July 2026 so @barrygardiner.bsky.social won @ukparliament.parliament.uk debate 3pm Thu 2 July. Please ask your MP to speak. We need path to @who.int guidelines and WOOD BURNING STOVES phased out per @thecccuk.bsky.social advice and to save lives cleanair.london

Let's bust some common myths about air pollution: #CleanAirDay @globalactionplan.bsky.social #earth-science #SciComm 🧪

There are 18 diesel vans for every electric one in the capital, and vans are now the single biggest transport source of NOx emissions in central and inner London. We're calling on the Mayor to act - starting with a zero-emission zone for freight. #AirPollution #ZeroEmissionZone

London needs Dutch-style zero emissions zone to curb diesel van use, Sadiq Khan told

Diesel van registrations by companies in London surpassed 100,000 for the first time on record at the end of 2025

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This Inside Story on #AirPollution from @granthamicl.bsky.social is well worth a watch. The film features our volunteer Beth, who has a young child with lung problems, speaking about the impact on her family. "I can't go to work as a doctor, because my own child is impacted by the air quality".

Inside Story: The fight to clean up London’s air

This is a story about why air pollution is a public health issue, how making invisible pollution visible led to cleaner air, and why the fight now is to ensure everyone benefits equally. Hear…

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Masterton, New Zealand has a big wood smoke pollution problem. A new report finds that the health-related costs of this pollution, including the economic impacts of premature deaths, comes out to around NZ$6,000 per resident.

Clean air goal will take decades

So far this year, the air quality guideline for PM2.5 has been exceeded 29 times in Masterton.

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“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.

Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

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The Medical Journal of Australia’s InSight Plus has published an article about Asthma Australia’s recommendation to phase out wood heaters. “We want people to understand that woodfire smoke doesn’t just affect the household using it — it impacts neighbours and entire communities.”

Woodfire heaters must be phased out, says Asthma Australia

The harmful effects of woodfire heater smoke are coming under increased scrutiny, with Asthma Australia calling for a national approach from governments…

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Well who would of thought it? The aviation industry promise of net zero in 2050 won't happen. It was promised 5 years ago on the basis of 'Sustainable Aviation Fuel' and offsets It turns out both are bollocks As many of us sceptically said at the time www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Airline industry chiefs say 2050 net zero goal now unlikely

Iata boss Willie Walsh blames fuel suppliers, governments and aircraft makers, saying new ‘realistic timeline’ now needed

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Great work from @asthmaandlung.org.uk and @healthyairuk.bsky.social, exposing the murky world of #AirPollution monitoring across the country. Top line - the government says the air is fine when local authorities say it's not. See us after class, DEFRA.

Scale of air pollution ‘four times as bad as official figures’

Government is accused of downplaying problem as local monitoring data suggests 19 of 31 areas in England have illegal levels of nitrogen dioxide

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Not sure how to engage with your new councillors about #AirPollution, #Climate & nature? On Monday at 8pm we're running a free session with Hope for the Future. Join us to get top tips on how to engage with your councillor, incl if they have different views to you. Sign up now!

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The ASA disregarded 2 peer-reviewed studies and a “memorandum of scientific support from an academic who specialised in air pollution, which stated agreement with the messaging in the ad campaign, and that the results were consistent with the burning of wood and solid fuel.” (From ASA’s statement.)

Families for Clean Air@healthyair.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Note: Numerous source apportionment studies in other areas HAVE definitely attributed the elevated winter particle pollution levels in winter to domestic wood burning. www.bbc.com/news/article...