Longer reads on air quality, the sensors behind it, and what the data does and does not say.
Croatia's waste plan says the 2035 landfill target cannot be met without energy recovery. EU rules set out what an incinerator must measure at the stack; a nearby air monitor sees only part of it.
In Croatia's inland cities, smoke from household heating rises in winter while traffic stays the same all year. Four years of black-carbon measurements at eight stations also show that heating leaves its own evening signature.
Saharan dust reaches Europe most often in early spring and shows up mainly in PM10. How to tell it apart from a local source, and why a hazy sky does not always mean poor air at ground level.
The September 2026 fires on Brač and at Kukuljanovo belong to a long series. The same landfills and plants burn again, many fires have no established cause, and what gets measured afterwards varies widely from case to case.
PFAS has turned up in the Gospić waste and in groundwater beside the dump, but not in 111 public water samples. An air monitor would miss all of it; air becomes a real question once the buried waste is dug up.
In early September the bora carried smoke from fires in Bosnia and Herzegovina over Split, and a day later over Dubrovnik. How much reaches the ground depends more on wind and altitude than on distance from the fire.
