January 2026   EarthSense, the UK’s leading manufacturer of air quality products, has announced a strategic partnership with IRP Fire and Safety Limited (IRP) to distribute Zephyr® air quality monitors in Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago and the wider region.   Trinidad-based IRP is the leading local and regional supplier of fire, safety, marine and environmental products. This collaboration follows the company’s recent merger with Rose Environmental, significantly enhancing its capacity to support...

Air pollution remains a significant environmental risk factor. Polluted air has a detrimental effect on our health, our life expectancy, and costs our society considerably.   There is a clear need for action to reduce people’s exposure, tackling existing health inequalities and improving outcomes for all. We are now seeing some major interventions in public health across the UK to reduce pollution and improve lives - no more so than in the education sector with the younger generation, where...

A recent report from the Royal College of Physicians, which represents around 40,000 physicians worldwide, revealed that a ir pollution in the UK is costing more than £500 million per week in ill health, NHS care and productivity losses, with 99% of the population breathing in ‘toxic air’.   The ‘ A breath of fresh air: responding to the health challenges of modern air pollution ’ report went on to say that ‘dirty air is killing more than 500 people per week, with health harm to almost every...