Welcome to BIOMASP+

In the last 50 years, the number of megacities has increased more than ten times, currently housing more than half of the world population. Air pollution is among the top of challenges faced by those regions, accounting for over 5 million deaths per year worldwide. While the anthropogenic nature of air pollution has been considered for a long time, there are growing evidences that the mixing between human-made emissions and those from the biosphere can modify, or even exacerbate the effect of anthropogenic pollution on the environment and health. The BIOMASP+ project aims at investigating the critical role of the biosphere-atmosphere interactions on urban pollution : largely admitted bur largely understimated and far from being understood