Air signals

Air signals

This section of the zero pollution monitoring assessment presents a series of short case studies that highlight additional sources of information on the impacts of air pollution on ecosystems.

Title Air signals
Description This section of the zero pollution monitoring assessment presents a series of short case studies that highlight additional sources of information on the impacts of air pollution on ecosystems.
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Summer cyanobacterial blooms in the Baltic Sea create foul bathing water and poor-quality beaches. This has an impact on tourism and raises health concerns, as some cyanobacteria produce toxins ( Karlson et al., 2021 ).", "value": [ { "children": [ { "text": "Algal blooms along the Baltic coast also result in significant losses for the aquaculture industry. Summer cyanobacterial blooms in the Baltic Sea create foul bathing water and poor-quality beaches. This has an impact on tourism and raises health concerns, as some cyanobacteria produce toxins (" }, { "children": [ { "text": "Karlson et al., 2021" } ], "data": { "url": "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1568988321000160?via%3Dihub" }, "type": "link" }, { "text": ")." } ], "type": "p" } ] }, "28029e7e-4ffc-45e7-8e9c-83a634a7aa75": { "@type": "slate", "plaintext": "Intensive algal blooms have become increasingly frequent in recent years as a result of a combination of excess nutrients and the increase in temperature in Baltic and Finnish coastal waters. In the Baltic Sea, there are two annual blooms: the spring bloom and the cyanobacterial bloom in late summer. In the southern Baltic Sea, autumnal blooms occur regularly. 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These limits clarify the maximum nitrogen level that the Baltic Sea sub-basins specifically can absorb; the target\u00a0is 792,000 tonnes of nitrogen per year ( Helcom, 2013 ).", "value": [ { "children": [ { "text": "Massive algal and cyanobacterial blooms, caused by excess nutrients, can lead to \u2018dead zones\u2019 \u2014 areas where oxygen levels are too low for marine organisms to live. To combat this, Helcom recommends total maximum input limits for nitrogen. 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Airborne nitrogen deposition to the Baltic Sea also decreased during the same general period, by around 25% ( Gauss et al., 2021 ).", "value": [ { "children": [ { "text": "Between 2000 and 2020, ammonia and nitrogen oxide emissions in the EU-27 decreased by 13% and 52%, respectively (" }, { "children": [ { "text": "EEA, 2022" } ], "data": { "url": "https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/zero-pollution/data-and-maps/dashboards/air-pollutant-emissions-data-viewer-4" }, "type": "link" }, { "text": "). Airborne nitrogen deposition to the Baltic Sea also decreased during the same general period, by around 25% (" }, { "children": [ { "text": "Gauss et al., 2021" } ], "data": { "url": "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1352231021001965" }, "type": "link" }, { "text": ")." } ], "type": "p" } ] }, "f4f83c34-dcb7-46ec-be25-32a811593bfe": { "@type": "slate", "plaintext": " Note :\u00a0The absolute values of oxidised nitrogen deposition are in tonnes(N) yr \u22121 . 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Atmospheric nitrogen deposition remains a significant issue in the Baltic Sea.", "value": [ { "children": [ { "text": "Despite significant reductions in nitrogen emissions in Europe over the last three decades, eutrophication remains an environmental concern in the Baltic Sea basin. The waterborne input of nitrogen (mainly through river inflow) generally outweighs its airborne deposition; however, the latter occurs at the surface, where phytoplankton activity is greatest, and therefore particularly encourages plankton growth. Atmospheric nitrogen deposition remains a significant issue in the Baltic Sea." } ], "type": "p" } ] }, "fce58219-ab41-4762-bb19-c76b5f2e17f5": { "@type": "slate", "plaintext": "Reducing atmospheric nitrogen deposition will be key to bringing the Baltic Sea\u2019s total nitrogen levels under the maximum allowable input, a threshold set by the Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission (Helcom) .", "value": [ { "children": [ { "text": "Reducing atmospheric nitrogen deposition will be key to bringing the Baltic Sea\u2019s total nitrogen levels under the maximum allowable input, a threshold set by the\u00a0" }, { "children": [ { "text": "Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission (Helcom)" } ], "data": { "url": "https://helcom.fi/" }, "type": "link" }, { "text": "." } ], "type": "p" } ] } }, "blocks_layout": { "items": [ "f81b09b7-c1b1-48d0-9b85-aef8900600c8", "fce58219-ab41-4762-bb19-c76b5f2e17f5", "e533af26-e53e-4bab-ab7e-44661f7762ec", "ee52d7bc-3631-4181-a99d-ea2a0f29d9f0", "8ca84624-f188-4680-b2fd-ab5bc7a67cc7", "62dbe1b9-a014-4a3e-af9d-1770a4cf945b", "bf63d562-7ba6-4968-949c-ddcc525e297f", "0728af57-6261-4c7e-a379-40dc69b3153b", "cbbd182c-8820-4758-a2a4-e5983d0e1218", "f4f83c34-dcb7-46ec-be25-32a811593bfe", "5b37167b-dfa7-4f90-8dfd-36d3df72fd9c", "be44534b-237d-4b4a-ac7f-c2e549d0da50", "bceec183-a215-4d6f-a265-3dcc59e9b4e3", "ea2089c3-fbaa-4ee7-af7f-b7689e39d592", "28029e7e-4ffc-45e7-8e9c-83a634a7aa75", "357c3a5a-ddaa-4ab7-82d4-334f3d057b5f", "16950afc-e2ba-4527-b35e-cd08dafd3a4a", "e16955f1-e764-4207-8d69-fca43a9af24a", "6a4c8ad7-5028-482c-a3c9-81fd7b1ee5ee" ] }, "title": "Air Signal 1: The significance of airborne nitrogen deposition to the Baltic Sea" }, "9c2214d3-e705-443a-8a7e-b3436fcaa4ed": { "@type": "accordionPanel", "blocks": { "0fdd58b2-914b-486a-9792-bf70bad4b6bb": { "@type": "dividerBlock", "hidden": true, "spacing": "s", "styles": {} }, "1fbe4dce-09bb-44f9-8808-214ed8961af2": { "@type": "slate", "plaintext": "Ground-level ozone also damages agricultural crops and timber, affecting the quality and yield of production and entailing significant economic losses for the sector. For example, in 2019, losses in wheat yields due to exposure to ozone were 9% in Greece, with losses of between 8% and 9% seen in Albania, Cyprus, Czechia and Portugal. In 17 European countries, the wheat yield loss due to ground-level ozone exposure exceeded 5%.", "value": [ { "children": [ { "text": "Ground-level ozone also damages agricultural crops and timber, affecting the quality and yield of production and entailing significant economic losses for the sector. For example, in 2019, losses in wheat yields due to exposure to ozone were 9% in Greece, with losses of between 8% and 9% seen in Albania, Cyprus, Czechia and Portugal. In 17 European countries, the wheat yield loss due to" }, { "children": [ { "text": "\u00a0" } ], "type": "sub" }, { "text": "ground-level ozone" }, { "children": [ { "text": "\u00a0" } ], "type": "sub" }, { "text": "exposure exceeded 5%." } ], "type": "p" } ] }, "4e97acac-366e-48e8-8926-7a100ce68aea": { "@type": "slate", "plaintext": "The countries most affected by economic losses from ground-level ozone\u2019s impact on wheat yields are those with high overall wheat production (see Figure 1). Losses in wheat yields were highest in France, reaching \u20ac350 million, followed by \u20ac280 million in Germany and \u20ac140 million in Poland. Most countries faced losses worth several millions of euros ( ETC/ATNI, 2021 ).", "value": [ { "children": [ { "text": "The countries most affected by economic losses from ground-level ozone\u2019s impact on wheat yields are those with high overall wheat production (see Figure 1). 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