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Published online 10 September 2008 | Nature 455, 142-143 (2008) | doi:10.1038/455142b

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Megacity project seeks to gauge urban pollution

Europe's air quality comes under scrutiny.

Parisian pollution is nothing compared with that of Beijing or Mexico City. Yet Paris, with 11 million people crammed into a region just 20 kilometres across, is to take centre stage in a new research project on the impact of megacities on air pollution.

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