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North American fires contaminate Europe
10.22.2025
aerial handout photo from the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency, taken in July/August 2025, shows billowing smoke and flames from the Muskeg, Trail, and Knee fires in northern Saskatchewan, Canada.
The huge fires that burn down millions of hectares of forest in North America every year have an impact on the other side of the Atlantic. Plumes of smoke and various other pollutants have been...
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How Airborne is the Virus?
06.04.2020
In March, an Italian study claiming that pollution particles could be a vector for spreading SARS-CoV-2 made the headlines. The physicist and chemist Jean-François Doussin explains why this thesis...
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