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Nickel belongs to the heavy metals and usually occurs bound to other substances. In ambient air arsenic is measured bound to particulate matter. read more

Until 2018 the WHO Collaborating Center for Air Quality Management and Air Pollution Control published news about air quality of the member states of the WHO Region for Europe. read more

Benzo(a)pyrene is a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon. It is used as a marker for the carcinogenic risk of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in ambient air. read more

The Air Hygiene Report informs on various air hygiene issues in the WHO Region for Europe. read more

The index is based on a health-related assessment of hourly mean ozone and nitrogen dioxide values and of hourly moving PM10 and PM2.5 daily mean values. For calculating the index, at least one of the four pollutants has to be measured at a station. The lack of measurements of at least one pollutant at a station is indicated by an incomplete circle: The index is based on all four poll... read more

Wood-fired heating systems emit more particulate matter locally than road traffic read more