Researchers calculated that 74 metric tons of microplastics are dropping out of the atmosphere onto the city annually, the equivalent of more than 3 million plastic bottles falling from the sky. Read more

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This year’s report lays out the scale of the challenge of reducing air pollution, the substantial progress that has been made and highlights achievable solutions. Chief Medical Officer’s annual report 2022: air pollution

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Seventy years ago, London was brought to a halt by a thick smog that blanketed the city. It is difficult to imagine how it must have felt to be indoors with fog pressed against the windows. People who ventured outside could not see their feet and many got lost in their own neighbourhoods. Read more

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We hope that the difficult times of the pandemic will be well behind us in September of 2022. In any case, we are well prepared to host both virtually and live the 11th International Aerosol Conference (IAC 2022) to be held September 4th-9th, 2022. Athens is waiting for you! On behalf of the conference organizing Committee, my Co-Chairs, Dr. K….

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International Symposium 2022, July 5th and 6th Brussels, Belgium Ultrafine Particles Ultrafine particles (UFP), the nano fraction of airborne particulate matter, are considered to be causing serious health problems and environmental effects. Combustion is a major source, also by producing volatile organic pollutants which are converted in the atmosphere by photochemical reactions. Increasing applications of man-made nanomaterials add to…

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Coal as a Christmas giftby Andrzej Jagusiewicz, president of EFCA COP-24 in Katowice (Poland) in 2019 teased its participants with marvellous jewellery, almost all types from ring to necklace, decorated with a sculptured piece of anthracite, the least harmful coal to air pollution if burnt. A very nice souvenir for many participants who bought it, much nicer than the…

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Upon invitation by the President of CITEPA* Jean-Guy Bartaire, EFCA President  Andrzej Jagusiewicz attended on 25th  October the Conference devoted to interrelationship between air pollution and climate during the energy transition period organised in Paris on the occasion of its 60th anniversary. Through several very interesting presentations, all speakers from France and the European Commission called unanimously for more…

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