Air pollution

Air Pollution in Portugal Thousand of Portuguese die every year, victims of air pollution. The warning comes from a study by the European Commission, which estimates that more than 300,000 the number of Europeans die prematurely each year due to poor quality of the air they breathe. Portugal occupies the 13th position in the ranking of EU (European union ) countries where the situation is more worrying. Also, the UN health agency said in the report that air pollution is now the greatest…

Impact of Air Pollution on the Economy The pure air is consisting of 21% oxygen, 78% nitrogen and less than 1% argon with Carbon di oxide. The pure air is essential for human bodies to live healthier with long life. Adult human intake pure air every day nearly 10-20 cubic meters where as children consume twice as adult. Hence pure air took an important and essential place in the human life. Thus we are celebrating Clean Air day on June 8th every year. Let us discuss about the air pollution and…

Recently, indoor air pollutant has become a great concern for human being. It has been found that indoor air pollution can cause harmful health impacts more than health impacts due to outdoor air pollution. People spend 65 to 90 percent of their time in indoor and maximum of that time in home. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) humans are exposed to indoor air pollutants two to five times more even 100 times higher than the levels of outdoor pollutants. As people spend…

INTRODUCTION Worldwide, air pollution is a growing threat to human health and the natural environment. One of the major effects of air pollution is acid rain and it is caused by sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) gases. The combustion of high sulphur content fossil fuels can release harmful toxic gases into the air and therefore pose serious environmental problems. Coal, oil and natural gas are major energy resources available in environment where as fuel combustion processes and…

true. For example, in the trailer, severe pollution and overpopulation have transformed Los Angeles into a depressing megacity. And regarding 2019 is only three years away, we consider that the situations of Los Angeles in 2019 will be no big difference compared with today’s in reality. With that, examining the fact of air pollution in Los Angeles today, we have to admit the truth of that prediction. “Blade Runner” states the cultural meaning of clean air. “We are all under the same blue sky, so…

Air pollution in China is a an issue that affects all Chinese citizens, but tends to have a more adverse affect on those citizens who are poor and live near the factories that cause this pollution. This issue is a result from a neglectful and ignorant government; China knowingly hurts its people for profit and power. The Chinese government exploits its people for financial gain with no regard for the citizens or the environment. China has become an economic powerhouse over the course of…

ominous threat that their own air poses to them. However, having poor air quality is not a situation unique to the Chinese only, despite Beijing being the better known through news sources. Cities in India and Pakistan claim the top 7 most polluted cities spots, while Beijing does not even break into the top 20. These cities have a serious problem that can stretch out overseas and across the world. Initially, it was difficult to judge or rate the quality of air. The requirements to define…

Without the atmosphere, people and plants would die. People cannot afford to keep ruining the atmosphere and the air because the Earth needs to support their future grandchildren. Many diseases and illnesses can come from air pollution. The air pollution can be bothersome for people with lung diseases, heart diseases, pregnant women, outdoor workers, young people, and the elderly. The air can cause eye problems, cardiovascular and respiratory illnesses, added stress to heart and lungs, which…

valleys during winter we have to go through an environment change called inversion. Inversion is where cold air and the warm air changes the place of each other, where the cold air in on the bottom. Due to this change the pollution and the cold air gets trapped within the valley with nowhere to escape. Just in 2013, major cities in Utah were in top 20 for worst air pollution in the world (air, 2013). With this information alone we can see that there is a definite problem. Most people probably…

Earth’s Atmosphere By Ikotun Oluwatoke Environmental science 2000 Student number: 7733112 Introduction Human activities has caused increase of dangerous air pollutant and climate change which has led to serious health illness, the increase in population is directly proportional to the increase in human sources of pollution. In the early model of Earth’s atmosphere, oxygen was a minor component of the Earth’s atmosphere and so many theories were made up for why this was so. However, as…