Nitrogen dioxide

emits lower-energy infrared radiation back out to the atmosphere and space. The Earth’s atmosphere and clouds trap this infrared energy and radiation directed from the Sun by certain gases called greenhouse gases, which include water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide, and many more. Then, these gases radiate the energy received in all directions, which some are radiated back…

Introduction We cannot compare anything to breathing clean and fresh air. But today, are we breathing clean air? The gases you're taking up by our noise could be slowly killing us. World Health Organization says in their report, in every year about two million people die too early due to the effects of polluted air. Air pollution is a large problem and it is not a problem of people only, the problem of the world also, through such things as global warming and damage to the ozone layer, it has…

exist greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and water vapor in the atmosphere that absorb the infrared radiation and sends some of it back to Earth’s surface, keeping Earth at a temperature that can support life. This is all well and good but human activities have started to increase the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere…

quality of the air (Daly, Zannetti 2). This causes damage to all species living in an affected area. Excess nitrogen, which can be created from air pollution, can then cause eutrophication and acidification effects on ecosystems, such as increase in bark pH and the change of ammonium and nitrate in precipitation (APIS). These adjustments mainly affect species that are customized to low nitrogen availability, like lichens mosses, and thus they are in danger of extinction. However, lichens are…

(Lou & Zhou 2006, 18-19). FIGURE 2.5.1. Diagram of ecosystem carbon processes. (Luo & Zhuo, 2006, p. 18). Soil respiration is also related to ecosystem production, which is the synthesis of organic compounds from atmospheric or aqueous carbon dioxide. Gross primary production (GPP) is the annual carbon assimilation by photosynthesis ignoring photorespiration. Net ecosystem production (NEP) is GPP minus ecosystem respiration Re: NEP = GPP – Re = GPP – Ra – Rs Equation 8 This relationship…

air, is called dry deposition. However, wet deposition is in the form of precipitation. As a result of chemicals being released from human productions, great amounts of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide are respired into the atmosphere, where rain and gas matter is polluted. Once both sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide come in contact with water or oxygen, acids are formed. Devastation extremes are directly related to the acidic concentration within deposition. High amounts of chemicals in…

million in 1980s (pg. 98). Deforestation and forest degradation is a fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions. Forests have a vital role to play in the fight against global warming. Forests and it soil can help absorb and store carbon dioxide and harmful gasses, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide and release oxygen (Schimel p.135), but if forests are cleared or disturbed we will lose out on the benefits of having tons of tress. Trees can converse water to air vapor which help reduce heat. According…

caused by the gases carbon dioxide, methane, dinitrogen and chlorofluorocarbons. For contrast, oxygen and nitrogen are gases that will not trap heat and are therefore not greenhouse gases. These greenhouse gases trap heat in the atmosphere. You see, the sun provides energy in the form of solar radiation; some of the radiation is reflected back into space, what is not is then absorbed by the clouds, the Earth’s surface and the atmospheric gases. As the atmospheric carbon dioxide level increases…

Two main environmental concerns associated with the use of coal are pollution, caused by emissions of contaminants such as sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and mercury, which affects human and environmental health, and greenhouse gases that are emissions that contribute to global warming. Social problems include the social and health complications that arise from the effects of the use of coal and coal mining. The mining of coal occurs in many ways, but is almost always damaging to the…

When people are driving their vehicle everywhere it is producing gases, such as carbon dioxide, which are very harmful for a human to breathe in, and those gases are polluting the air. Also, when as the cars are producing these harmful gases, the gases can also sink into the soil and surface waters where they can enter our human food chain…