Flanders Environment Agency (VMM)

Heavy metals spread through dust particles in the air and enter our body through breathing. At higher concentrations, they can be harmful to our (...)

An excess of nutrients (e.g. nitrate and/or phosphate) in surface water can lead to excessive algal blooms, which, for example, greatly reduces (...)

Phosphate is an important plant-feeding substance and is an essential building block in all living beings. However, too much phosphate (...)

Particulate matter is almost always a mixture of different types of particles. When it is emitted directly, we are talking about primary dust (...)

In recent decades, atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and aerosols have increased mainly as a result of human activities. That (...)

Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by almost 2% in 2019 (compared to 2018).The total greenhouse gas emissions decreased by 11.5% in the period (...)

PAHs are organic compounds consisting of coupled aromatic rings. Several PAHs cause DNA damage in the human body and are therefore very (...)

reflects the evolution of net emissions of nutrients from households in Flanders for the period from 2010 onwards.

Particulate matter is almost always a mixture of different types of particles. When it is emitted directly, we are talking about primary dust (...)

Black carbon (BC) is a measure of the concentration of soot in the ambient air and is produced by incomplete combustion of fossil fuels, biomass (...)