Acid rain

Effect of air pollution Air pollution affects the health of people and other animals. Air pollution can affect the health of people and animals, destroy crops or stop them growing properly, and make our world unpleasant and unattractive in a variety of other ways. Human health Air pollution is bad think if we think about it. Sometimes the connection between air pollution and human health is clear; an example is in the Bhopal Disaster in India. And one more example is the incident in London in…

Rain is already slightly acidic originally and has a pH of 6 without being introduced to acids in our atmosphere.This is because as rain falls it combines with carbon dioxide CO2 to form carbonic acid H2CO3 which is a very weak acid and completely harmless in our environment. When acids are introduced into the rainwater it can lower the pH of rain to 3, this is very acidic according to the pH scale. The lowering of pH is 10-fold. This means that lowering the pH from 6 to 3 you must do 10x10x10…

Rain occurs when condensed moisture in the atmosphere falls to the ground in separate, visible drops and it provides us with another source of water and can be used to provide plants with water such as in rainforests or countryside. The hydrologic cycle allows for rain to form and pour down in different areas. Water from oceans, swamps, lakes, rivers are evaporated and turn into water vapor due to the water being heated by the sun or other means. This water vapor rises into the troposphere…

The public health has been negatively affected by the bad pollutants in the air. With so many diseases and health problems that are caused by this, the population has been greatly affected. These health effects include death, respiratory, asthma, and cardiovascular problems (Davis, 2012). This has been happening for a while and with all of the harmful pollutants in the air, many more health problems have been occurring in people. According to a study, median annual levels that were found in the…

Both complete and incomplete combustion have had a detrimental impact on both the environment and human health. In particular, the Greenhouse Effect, acid rain and photochemical smog, have come to light as a significant issue in recent years. When hydrocarbons, known more commonly as fossil fuels, are combusted, there are unintended waste products and they cause harm to human health and the environment. These waste products have social, economic and environmental implications. The effects…

Our Air is something we take for granted as opposed to food or water we don’t really contemplate much about it. Similar to the way we breathe it’s just a part of our life whether we consciously think about it or not. Comparable to our subconscious breathing is the autonomous effects polluted air can have on just about every aspect of the world. Its indisputable to say all of you know in our lifetime, environmental concerns revolving around our expenditure of fossil fuels and the effects it has…

Creating unnecessary noise and light are creating pollution, also trashing the soil that can lead to acid rain. Moreover, preventing this phenomenon is hard because the Philippines, especially earth in totality is far from recovering its true form. Air pollution out of the five listed above of environmental pollution is the biggest contributing factor to…

Chesapeake Bay’s water quality has been deteriorating over the recent years. Some reasons for the decrease in quality are agriculture, chemical contaminates, and sediment. Agriculture has caused problems for the Bay due to the use of fertilizer. When it rains, the excess nutrients run off into the waterways that lead to the Bay. These excess nutrients include nitrogen and phosphorus. When these nutrients get into the Bay, it causes an algae bloom. The algae bloom blocks any light from getting…

1 Introduction Air pollution is one of the primary environmental hazards to the health of citizens across the world. If countries focus on controlling and decreasing the level of air pollution they can rapidly minimize the risk of various deadly diseases like cardiovascular diseases, various types of cancer, acute and chronic respiratory problems like pneumonia, asthma etc. over short and long-time period. According to the World Health Organization(WHO) in the year 2014, around more than ninety…

the neutral number, where neither it is considered acidic of basic (5). It is found that rain water that is unpolluted is coincides with carbon dioxide and has a pH of 5.6. Often, the pH around the world of rainwater is lower. This would make rain extremely acidic. There are two main pollutants that are responsible for acid rain and they are sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide. Because of this acid rain there are many different ways that it affects ecosystem…