DIRTY AIR: WHAT WE’RE BREATHING IN. Is the air you’re breathing clean? Out of the 7.1 billion people that are living on this planet, majority of us do not ask the serious question: is our air clean? The answer to that question is no our air is not clean. Our dirty air is causing some of our population to get sick. The main illnesses caused by air pollution are chronic obstructive pathway disease (COPD), asthma and lung cancer. Out of the three diseases, lung cancer causes the most deaths. According
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Air Pollution Air pollution is caused by many things * the increasing number of cars on our roads * growing cities * the fast development of our economy * industrialisation Air pollution, as we know it today, started with the Industrial Revolution in Europe in the 19th century. In the last few decades, it has become the major problem for our environment. Clean air is normally made up of nitrogen (76 %) , oxygen (22%) , carbon dioxide and a few other gases. When harmful elements
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The World Health Organization reports that “indoor air pollution from solid fuel use is responsible for almost 2 million annual deaths and 2.7% of the global burden of disease. This makes this risk factor the second biggest environmental contributor to ill health, behind unsafe water and sanitation. Acute lower respiratory infections, in particular pneumonia, continue to be the biggest killer of young children and cause more than 2 million annual deaths. (World) In many communities like Libby,
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many environmental issues that we are not aware of. An example of an issue that is getting worse every day is air pollution. We don’t pay attention to air pollution because it’s something we can’t see and aren’t aware of the different effects it has on us and our planet. Certain forms of air pollution are the cause for some of our existing health problems. One such form of air pollution is vehicle exhaustion. Inhaling fumes produced by motor vehicles could cause detrimental health problems if inhaled
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PART 2: PROJECT SOURCES 14 AUG 2014 1. “10 Ways to Clean the Air”, Allen, Caffilene // Cats Magazine; Jan1999, Vol. 55 Issue 1, p40 Suggests ways of removing air pollutants in the house. 2. Sizing up RTO and RCO heat transfer media Momtaz, Sameh W.; Truppi, Thomas J.; Seiwert, Jr., Joseph J. // Pollution Engineering; Dec97, Vol. 29 Issue 13, p34 Discusses various aspects on regenerative heat recovery systems for air emissions abatement. Heat transfer materials for packed bed regenerators;
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hurricanes, avalanches, mud slides and lighting storms that all increasing in regularity and size due to the unstable atmospheric conditions and to the rising of warm moist air being mixed with cold air which causes tropical storms such as hurricanes and tornados. As in the current tornados in Oklahoma that have occurred repeatedly. Warm air in the mountains will cause avalanches and mud slides and promotes other increasing problems for certain cultures. People 50 years ago who lived in the areas where
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A) with special characteristic which makes them extremely hazardous. which could be absorbed by the environment. which could be little or not at all absorbed by the environment. which could be dissolved in water. Answer: C 2) Hcnr would the pollution for which the environment has some absorptive capacity be called? B) Fund pollutants. A) Raw D) Absorptive pollutants. C) Light pollutants. pollutants. Answer: B 3) What is the characteristic of Carbon dioxide from below? A) Could be absorbed
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Atmospheric Pollution As I had started my research on atmospheric pollution, I had come to find that it all coincides with global warming. Due to the gases that are being released in the air from vehicles, it starts to destroy the atmosphere. However, it is not just the gases from the vehicles, there are also gases from power plants and aerosol cans, for example, hairspray. Smokers also contribute to the pollution in the atmosphere. All of this will be discussed further into the paper.
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When you’re considering North Carolina, The Appalachian Mountains are very bio-diverse regions in the world that would include latitude, altitude, topsoil types, immediacy seaside, and geologic time have gather for the advancement of numerous types of vegetation and animals. Many of the types are mutual across the globe yet some are prevalent to a handful of remote mountains in the vicinity. The most feasible way gain knowledge of this way of living is by alpinism. The setting around these mountains
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appointments, leading to loss in productivity for businesses (Hartman 2014). In Malaysia, heavily congested highways in Klang Valley causes lost in manpower hours that will lead to a loss more than RM12million per year (Gomez 2014). Fuel consumption and pollution In a congested traffic condition, fuel consumption is much more higher than a smooth rate traffic as the fuel consumption rate is strongly associated to the driving pattern such as stop and go, acceleration on-deceleration and so on (Robinson 1984)
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