{"id":587319,"date":"2026-05-16T13:04:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T13:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/587319\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T13:04:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T13:04:30","slug":"how-air-pollution-is-being-monitored-in-southampton-and-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/587319\/","title":{"rendered":"How air pollution is being monitored in Southampton and Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As part of its Air Day coverage, BBC South visited Southampton and Reading to understand how pollution builds up and is measured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The main source of pollution in the UK is local emissions, such as road traffic, industrial processes, heating and agriculture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On a windy day, any pollution that builds up could be blown away, but on a calm day, particularly in winter, the pollution can be trapped at the earth&#8217;s surface.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">I met Simon Hartill, scientific officer for Southampton City Council&#8217;s environmental health department, at one of its four ground-based air monitoring stations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the station in Brintons Road, near St Mary&#8217;s Stadium, the council and Environment Agency monitor levels of nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide and other pollutants. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As part of its Air Day coverage, BBC South visited Southampton and Reading to understand how pollution builds&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-587319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}