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Ammonia Maps.
16.04.26

Outputs:
Interactive Map Tags:
Agriculture
Pollution Notes:
Commissioned by Compassion In World Farming and Sustain.
Description:
Ammonia Maps reveals the areas of the UK that are most at risk of ammonia pollution. We tracked point-source ammonia emissions and developed an innovative manure-to-ammonia conversion method to map diffuse sources, i.e. manure spread on fields. This research highlighted the combined environmental and health risks created by factory farm pollution and was widely reported, including local press.

Design:
An interactive mapping tool that tracks the likelihood of ammonia pollution across the UK. The colour scheme was developed in accordance with the NHS urine dehydration colour guidelines and the gradation scale was pulled from Muck Maps.

Publication:
Nation Cymru  (reporting)
ENDS Report (reporting)
Wicked Leeks (reporting)
Hereford Times (reporting)
AirQualityNews (reporting)
The Guardian (reporting)
The Grocer (reporting)
Farmers Weekly (reporting)
The Independent (reporting)
The Scotsman (reporting)

Ammonia pollution hotspots found in areas of UK with most pig and poultry factory farms / The Guardian // Interactive ammonia map launched highlighting crisis caused by intensive farming / Nation.Cymru // ‘A spiral to more pollution’: Will planning reform land England’s councils in a megafarm legal flap? / ENDS Report //  


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