The Hazardous Effects of Pollution to the Environment and Human Health Abstract Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that causes adverse change. It can take the form of chemical substances or energy. Pollutants‚ the components of pollution‚ can be either foreign substances/energies or naturally occurring contaminants. It is any discharge of material or energy into water‚ land‚ or air that causes or may cause acute (short-term) or chronic (long-term) detriment
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in the air. By the 1940’s‚ the air quality in major industrial cities was so polluted that by mid-day the air was so darkened that cars needed to use their headlights since it appeared as though the sky was at dusk. In 1948‚ a smog‚ which is a mixture between smoke and fog‚ settled over a small town near Pittsburgh named Donora. The smog lasted for five days‚ killing twenty people and sickening thousands. In order to address the growing concern over environmental pollution‚ the Clean Air Act of 1963
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SZT Task 3C Western Governors University Air Quality and Patient Care According to the U.S Environmental Protection Agency‚ or EPA‚ states “Information from clinical‚ epidemiological‚ and animal studies summarized above indicates that exposure to ambient ozone is a risk factor for triggering acute and chronic health effects. These include chest discomfort‚ cough‚ and shortness of breath and increases in daily mortality and hospital admissions for respiratory disease in the general population
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Pollution is defined as the presence of a substance that has harmful effects on the environment. “Urban Pollution- Many Long Years Ago” by Joel A. Tarr is an article that talks about the problem of pollution in United States of America during early 1900. According to Joel A. Tarr‚ horse as a form of transportation during this time causes pollution. The idea of a car instead of a horse as a form of transportation is what they think as the best solution to lessen or stop urban pollution. The
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outline I. Introduction Hook- Air travel has become a common transportation among most of the people in this world. Background information- Approximately 1‚423‚500‚000 people travels by airplane per year and 3‚900‚000 passengers travel by flight every day. What the writer intends to do- Discuss why huge number of people using air travel to travel. Body A. Paragraph 1 1. Topic sentences 1 * Many of people prefer to choose travel by cheap air travel because of it amount. *
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does pollution in large cities affect human health? Pollution‚ a worldwide problem which has been concerned with since 1972 (Seitz 2008:156)‚ has significant effects on human health in large cities. It may be defined as several different types of pollutant in environment mainly caused by industry and agriculture‚ having a harmful impact on public health. It is because cities‚ most of which‚ have depended on the two types of industry to develop the economy that the problems of urban pollution are
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INTRODUCTION Air pollution is define as the presence of chemicals in the atmosphere high enough to affect climate and harm organisms and materials. Gaseous or particulate substances released into the atmosphere in sufficient quantities or concentrations to cause injury to plants‚animals‚ or humans. Other sources of pollutants included dust and fine particulate‚ which were contributed by the inefficiency of diesel-powered vehicles and also the smoke aerosol from fires on Peninsular Malaysia. Meteorological
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policies largely influence the way humans interact with the environment. Policies targeting air quality‚ namely the Clean Air Act‚ have been effective in lowering the emissions of pollutants; however climate change is still something that concerns some scientists‚ citizens‚ and policymakers. As such‚ the need for further progress is necessary. In order to make such progress policymakers may need to develop air quality and climate change policies through an integrative approach. Doing this‚ however
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com/locate/envsci Climate and air quality-driven scenarios of ozone and aerosol precursor abatement Kristin Rypdal a‚ Nathan Rive a‚*‚ Terje Berntsen a‚ Hilde Fagerli b‚ Zbigniew Klimont c‚ Torben K. Mideksa a‚ Jan S. Fuglestvedt a a CICERO‚ P.O. Box 1129 Blindern‚ N-0318 Oslo‚ Norway met.no‚ P.O. Box 43 Blindern‚ N-0313 Oslo‚ Norway c International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)‚ A-2361 Laxenburg‚ Austria b article info Published on line 16 September 2009 Keywords: Air pollutants Radiative
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education and encouraging them to be more passionate about their environment could be two examples of the possible practical actions against the air pollution. In conclusion‚ I must say that it is far more preferable to develop a consumption policy rather than rising prices which may have a reverse effect in the long run. I think that to solve traffic and pollution problems‚ several measures need to be sorted out‚ besides increasing the price of
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