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Air pollution also comes from natural sources

SOER 2010 Key fact (Deprecated) Published 20 Jul 2012

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Human activities are the main cause of poor air quality, but natural sources of air pollution also play a role. The most common natural sources of particulate matter in Europe are desert dust, volcanoes, forest and grassland fires, and salt from sea spray

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