Air Pollution
Results of Air pollution
Peoples' health
Heart disease, lung cancer, and respiratory diseases
Air pollution can also cause long-term damage to people's nerves, brain, kidneys, liver, and other organs. Some scientists suspect air pollutants cause birth defects
Pollution may muddy landscapes, poison soils and waterways, or kill plants and animals
Air pollution can damage crops and trees in a variety of ways. Ground-level ozone can lead to reductions in agricultural crop and commercial forest yields, reduced growth and survivability of tree seedlings, and increased plant susceptibility to disease, pests and other environmental stresses (such as harsh weather).
There are 3 types of Pollution
Air pollution, water pollution, and land pollution
What is Air Pollution?
Air pollution is a mixture of solid particles and gases in the air. Car emissions, chemicals from factories, dust, pollen and mold spores may be suspended as particles. When ozone forms air pollution, it's also called smog. Some air pollutants are poisonous.
What is water pollution?
Water pollution occurs when harmful substances—often chemicals or microorganisms—contaminate a stream, river, lake, ocean, aquifer, or other body of water, degrading water quality and rendering it toxic to humans or the environment.
What is Land Pollution?
Land pollution, the deposition of solid or liquid waste materials on land or underground in a manner that can contaminate the soil and groundwater, threaten public health, and cause unsightly conditions.
Harmful Gases
Carbon Dioxide:
Greenhouse gases have far-ranging environmental and health effects. They cause climate change by trapping heat, and they also contribute to respiratory disease from smog and air pollution. Extreme weather, food supply disruptions, and increased wildfires are other effects of climate change caused by greenhouse gases
Sulphur Dioxide:
Sulfur dioxide affects the respiratory system, particularly lung function, and can irritate the eyes. Sulfur dioxide irritates the respiratory tract and increases the risk of tract infections. It causes coughing, mucus secretion and aggravates conditions such as asthma and chronic bronchitis.27 Mar 2017
Nitrogen Dioxide:
Elevated levels of nitrogen dioxide can cause damage to the human respiratory tract and increase a person's vulnerability to, and the severity of, respiratory infections and asthma. High levels of nitrogen dioxide are also harmful to vegetation,
damaging foliage, decreasing growth or reducing crop yields.
Pollutants for Air Pollution:
Cookstoves
Heaters
AC and Refrigerator
Burning of Fossil Fuels
The damaging of the ozone layer causes global warming
When a car release exhaust fumes, it cause acid rain.
