Air Pollution
Throughout Asia air pollution is a significant threat to human health and the environment. Industrial emissions from fossil fuel use constitute the bulk of the pollutants released into t...
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Atmospheric Pollution
Atmospheric pollution (also commonly called air pollution) is derived chiefly from the spewing of gasses and solid particulates into the atmosphere. Many pollutants—dust, ...
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Air Pollution
Air contamination is divided into two broad categories: primary and secondary. Primary pollutants are those released directly into the air. Some examples include dust, smoke, and a varie...
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Air Pollution
Air pollution may be defined as the introduction into the atmosphere of any material that brings about a negative effect on plants, animals, or people. The effect can vary from lowered v...
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Air Pollution
Air pollution is a general term that covers a broad range of contaminants in the atmosphere. Pollution can occur from natural causes or from human activities. Discussions about the eff...
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Air Pollution Control
The need to control air pollution was recognized in the earliest cities. In the Mediterranean at the time of Christ, laws were developed to place objectionable sources of odor ...
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Air-Pollutant Transport
Air-pollutant transport is the advection or horizontal convection of air pollutants from an area where emission occurs to a downwind receptor area by local or regional winds. I...
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Ambient Air
The air, external to buildings and other enclosures, found in the lower atmosphere over a given area, usually near the surface. Air pollution standards normally refer to ambient air.
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Atmospheric (Air) Pollutants
Atmospheric pollutants are substances that accumulate in the air to a degree that is harmful to living organisms or to materials exposed to the air. Common air pollutant...
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Pollution Control
Pollution control is the process of reducing or eliminating the release of pollutants into the environment. It is regulated by various environmental agencies which establish pollutan...
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Primary Pollutant
Primary pollutants cause pollution by their direct release into the environment. The substance released may already be present in some quantities, but it is considered a primary po...
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Air Pollution
The pernicious effects of air pollution were first documented long ago. As early as 61 C.E., Seneca, a Roman
philosopher and noted essayist, wrote, "As soon as I had gotten out of...
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Air Pollution
Air pollution is a phenomenon by which particles (solid or liquid) and gases contaminate the environment. Such contamination can result in health effects on the population, which might b...
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As time progresses forward, so does humanity along with impressive technological advances created to lessen the stress upon the daily lives of civilians. But with these new advances also emerges unp...
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What is Air Pollution?
Pollution of threat began with the prehistoric hunters and farmers burning down trees to grow crops, and slaying animal for food. Today, we burn fossil fuels for energy, cut do...
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Air pollution is a well-known problem throughout the world. Humans know that we are the major cause for air pollution and although we know this fact, we continue to pollute. We poison our air every da...
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Luong Van Inh is among a neglected group of Asians threatened by an environmental hazard rarely considered: indoor air pollution. Caused by burning wood, coal or other cheap fuels in kitchens, it k...
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The South Coast Air Quality Management District sued California public utility officials, claiming the liquefied natural gas that officials approved for use in the state could worsen air pollution....
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Foshan, a mid-western manufacturing hub in southern China's
Guangdong Province, is responsible for generating most air pollutants
in the past year, according to an air quality monitoring repo...
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Hong Kong (dpa) - Concerns over Hong Kong's notorious air
pollution intensified Tuesday as a university study found a link
between poor air quality and hospital admissions. ...
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An 11-year-old damages suit over air pollution in Tokyo was
effectively resolved Monday with hundreds of asthma patients and
seven automakers telling the Tokyo High Court the same day that th...
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(EDS: RECASTING, ADDING DETAILS)
A damages suit over air pollution in Tokyo filed by hundreds of
asthma patients officially ended in an out-of-court settlement
Wednesday, with seven automake...
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HONG KONG, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Air pollution in the southern
Chinese province of Guangdong increased markedly last year, with
27 major cities and counties suffering a record number of hazy
days, Xi...
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Geneva (dpa) - Diseases attributed to the use of solid fuel in the
home are responsible for around 1.5 million deaths globally every
year, according to new estimates publish...
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