In spite of the global outcry for urgent action against air pollution, most African countries lack
functional air quality monitoring stations and data there from; making air quality …

Seventeen halogenated flame retardants (HFRs) were concurrently analyzed in surface
seawater and low atmospheric samples from the Bohai Sea during four research cruises …

Abstract Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is rapidly urbanizing, and ambient air pollution has
emerged as a major environmental health concern in growing cities. Yet, effective air quality …

Cement manufacturing contributes to the elevation of air pollutants in the atmosphere and
thus impact on the nearby communities. This study assessed air quality in a major Cement …

Visibility and aerosol optical depth (AOD) characterization, and their relationship with PM10
and local and synoptic meteorology, were studied for January–March in 2014 and 2015 over …

This study investigates the size distribution, microbial composition, and antibiotic resistance
(ABR) of airborne bioaerosols at a suburban location in Doha, Qatar between October 2021 …

Background: Once the year comes to end, around late November up to February, there
prevails the dry cold wind originated from the Sahara Desert in North Africa toward the West …

Rationale: Exposure to biomass smoke is believed to increase the risk of developing chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease. However, little is known about the mechanisms underlying …

Trends and sources of air pollution at twenty-five traffic Intersections (TIs) before and during
covid-19 lockdown were investigated in Ibadan, Nigeria. The relationships among climatic …

Dust export from the central Sahara region, and in particular from source region hotspots
such as the Bodélé Depression, is well known from geological records, European …