Published By Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Issued almost 10 years ago
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Annual levels of particles and ozone, 1987 to 2011 Our air quality is monitored by a national network of monitoring sites, which continuously captures ambient air quality levels for selected pollutants throughout the UK. This monitoring helps to assess the risks to people’s health and to the environment. Urban background and roadside particulate pollution has shown long-term improvement but changed little recently. Urban background ozone pollution has shown a long-term increase and Rural background ozone pollution has shown no clear long-term trend and changed little recently.