Residential heating with wood or coal can lead to significant air pollution, even in rural communities, researchers say
In autumn 2018, a shipping container full of air pollution measurement equipment arrived in the centre of the small German village of Melpitz.
Dr Dominik van Pinxteren of the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research explained the reason for their investigation: “We were concerned that wood burning could be an important source of particle pollution in small villages, but these areas are not adequately covered by official air quality monitoring networks.”
