Particulate matter from the road surface abrasion as a problem of non-exhaust emission control

M Penkała, P Ogrodnik, W Rogula-Kozłowska - Environments, 2018 - mdpi.com
Along with house heating and industry, emissions from road traffic (exhaust and tire, brake,
car body or road surface abrasions) are one of the primary sources of particulate matter (PM) …

Dilution of concentrations of PAHs from atmospheric particles, bulk deposition to soil: a review

J Liu, J Jia, P Grathwohl - Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 2022 - Springer
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are emitted to the atmosphere by various
anthropogenic activities as well as natural sources, they undergo long-range transport, are …

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons bound to outdoor and indoor airborne particles (PM2. 5) and their mutagenicity and carcinogenicity in Silesian kindergartens …

E Błaszczyk, W Rogula-Kozłowska… - Air Quality, Atmosphere …, 2017 - Springer
Assessment of exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) is important due to the
widespread presence of PAHs in the environment and their toxicological relevance …

[HTML][HTML] Inhalation risk to PAHs and BTEX during barbecuing: The role of fuel/food type and route of exposure

AJ Badyda, W Rogula-Kozłowska, G Majewski… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
The manuscript presents an innovative and holistic approach to quantifying PAHs and BTEX
emissions from the grilling process and indicates a novel driven–toxicity-based solution to …

Heavy metal-and organic-matter pollution due to self-heating coal-waste dumps in the Upper Silesian Coal Basin (Poland)

Á Nádudvari, B Kozielska, A Abramowicz… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study provides potential insight between self-heating coal-waste dumps and related
environmental pollution in southern Poland. Samples collected from dumps in the Upper …

[HTML][HTML] Annual exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in urban environments linked to wintertime wood-burning episodes

I Tsiodra, G Grivas, K Tavernaraki… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are organic pollutants in fine particulate matter
(PM) long known to have mutagenic and carcinogenic effects, but much is unknown about …

Indoor air quality in urban and rural kindergartens: short-term studies in Silesia, Poland

E Błaszczyk, W Rogula-Kozłowska… - Air Quality, Atmosphere …, 2017 - Springer
More than 80% of people living in urban areas who monitor air pollution are exposed to air
quality levels that exceed limits defined by the World Health Organization (WHO). Although …

Size-segregated urban particulate matter: mass closure, chemical composition, and primary and secondary matter content

W Rogula-Kozłowska - Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health, 2016 - Springer
Forty-nine components of ambient particulate matter (PM) in size-fractionated PM were
investigated at an urban background site in Katowice (Silesian Agglomeration in Southern …

The influence of a fire at an illegal landfill in Southern Poland on the formation of toxic compounds and their impact on the natural environment

W Rykała, MJ Fabiańska, D Dąbrowska - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Landfill fires pose a real threat to the environment as they cause the migration of pollutants
to the atmosphere and water sources. A greater risk is observed in the case of wild landfills …

BaP exposure causes oocyte meiotic arrest and fertilization failure to weaken female fertility

M Zhang, Y Miao, Q Chen, M Cai, W Dong… - The FASEB …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Benzo [a] pyrene (BaP) is a ubiquitous environmental pollutant and carcinogen that is
frequently found in particulate matter, with a diameter of≤ 2.5 μm (PM2. 5). It has been …