pollution

• News / Clean Air Zone

  Looking back at the Clean Air Zone one year on

  The council is expected to have raised over £9m since the scheme launched a year ago

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• News / river

  Citizen science project returns to clean up Bristol’s waterways

  The annual Bristol Avon RiverBlitz collects samples to test water quality

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• News / West of England

  Car use in West of England must almost halve to meet climate targets

  A new report found that 52 per cent of people in the region travelled to work by car in 2022

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• Your say / Avon Needs Trees

  ‘Bristolians feel strongly about trees, perhaps it’s that we keep losing them’

  Mark Funnell is the chair of Avon Needs Trees, the charity on a mission to create more woodland

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• News / traffic

  ‘Bristol has been too congested for too long’

  Bristol has been ranked the second most congested urban area in the UK

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• News / wild swimming

  The group fighting to end sewage pollution in beloved Bristol swimming spot

  They want it to become the second UK river to be granted special status

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• News / Sea Mills

  River Trym causes a stink

  A diesel oil spill has contaminated the Trym in north Bristol

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• News / pollution

  Pollution decreases in Bristol under coronavirus restrictions

  BBC data shows that nitrogen dioxide levels have dropped dramatically

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