Current status of particulate matter pollution in Europe and future perspectives: A review

Particulate matter (pm) pollution is currently one of the main concerns at a global scale for its adverse effects on the human health,environment and climate. in spite of the considerable improvements achieved in the last decades in many industrialized countries,pm pollution is still responsible of thousands premature deaths and of the increase of many pathologies each year in europe. after a brief description of particulate matter properties and its health effects,we summarize the present status of pm (both pm10 and pm2.5,where the subscript refers to the maximum size of the particle) pollution in europe and the current eu legislation. finally,we discuss on the recent developments and perspectives on pm monitoring with focus on the emerging low-cost participatory sensing technologies. © 2017,university of mohammed premier oujda morocco.