The literature on atmospheric particulate matter (PM), or atmospheric aerosol, has increased
enormously over the last 2 decades and amounts now to some 1500–2000 papers per year …

Biochar generated from thermochemical conversion of biomass reduces greenhouse gas
emissions and is useful for improving ecological systems in agriculture. However, certain …

Black carbon aerosol plays a unique and important role in Earth's climate system. Black
carbon is a type of carbonaceous material with a unique combination of physical properties …

This longitudinal study presents the joint effects of a COVID-19 community lockdown on
household energy and food security in an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya. Randomly …

Residential biomass burning has been pointed out as one of the largest sources of fine
particles in the global troposphere with serious impacts on air quality, climate and human …

Climate change and air pollution are critical environmental issues both in the here and now
and for the coming decades. A recent OECD report found that unless action is taken, air …

This paper presents a summary of the work done within the European Union's Seventh
Framework Programme project ECLIPSE (Evaluating the Climate and Air Quality Impacts of …

Background Approximately 2· 8 billion people are exposed to household air pollution from
cooking with polluting fuels. Few monitoring studies have systematically measured health …

Black carbon in soot is the dominant absorber of visible solar radiation in the atmosphere.
Anthropogenic sources of black carbon, although distributed globally, are most concentrated …

Although the definition and measurement techniques for atmospheric" black carbon"(" BC")
or" elemental carbon''(" EC") have long been subjects of scientific controversy, the recent …