ABSTRACT
The need of monitoring and cleaning the environment from chemical and biological contaminants is an ever-growing problem for underdeveloped countries as well as for the rest of the industrialized countries, where industry, anthropogenic, and agriculture activities (e.g., pesticides) have been causing signicant dangers to environmental safety and human health.1-3 There is a strict relationship between the climate change and the pollution. Processes such as fossil fuel burning in industry, motor vehicles, and buildings emit pollutants that cause local and regional pollution. These pollutants include particulate matter (PM) and ground-level ozone (O3), nitrogen oxides (NOx), sulfur oxides (SOx), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and carbon monoxide (CO). The same processes are responsible, too, of the release of greenhouse gases (GHGs), mainly carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide that are linked to global climate change. Since up to date high levels of pollutants were produced, their effects were found on a global environmental scale. Air pollution and climate change inuence each other through complex interactions in the atmosphere. Increasing levels of GHGs modify the energy balance between the atmosphere and the earth’s surface that, in turn, can cause temperature changes altering the chemical composition of the atmosphere.4
