Climate Change Accelerates Ozone Pollution After Years of Efforts to Improve Air Quality

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European cities have been battling air pollution for more than two decades on the basis of reducing traffic, promoting the electric car or cutting emissions from industry. These measures have paid off and the mortality associated with pollution has fallen dramatically, but climate change is reversing some of these advances. Warming the atmosphere, coupled with the rise in forest fires and dustfalls from the Sahara, keeps intact the concentration…