Volume 85 (2025), Edition 05-06

In view of the trend towards growing vegetables in the immediate vicinity of roads in urban areas, a pilot study was carried out to investigate the impact of road traffic on food crops. For this purpose, the bioindicators kale, chard, lollo rosso...

Since the decline in large-scale pollution by acidifying air pollutants (especially SO2, NOX), the exposure of the epiphytic lichen Hypogymnia physodes has become less important according to the standard VDI 3957 Part 21. However, its particular...

Exposure measurements are subject to large uncertainties. Therefore, this article presents statistical methods to answer the title question. They rest on sufficiently large samples for tests to accept a distribution. In a second step, the parameters...

Low-cost aerosol sensors offer promising prospects for monitoring workplace atmospheres. The study summarized in this article was conducted jointly by a number of European research organisations, including the French Institut national de recherche...

The Bavarian Environment Agency (LfU) set up and commissioned three measuring stations to record ultrafine particles (UFP) at sites in Augsburg (LfU), Munich (Johanneskirchen), and Regensburg (university) in the urban background, with the sites...