Umweltbundesamt

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

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

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