Category: Air Pollution

1. Introduction Pollution is when a harmful substance is introduced to the environment causing damage to living beings. Pollution can be found in many aspects of life such as marine, air, and soil pollution; with air pollution posing a great health risk to humans (Kampa and Castanas, 2007). Air pollution has numerous causes and effects.…

There is a major air pollution problem in California, especially in major cities such as Los Angeles, Long Beach, and Bakersfield. Los Angeles has the worst smog by far, affecting millions with over 600,000 of them being children. The smog is so awful that it is destroying the ozone layer, which is the only thing…

Los Angeles, California air pollution dilemma stems from the 1940s, specifically on October 14, 1947, when the first air pollution control program was established, the Los Angeles County Air Pollution District (AQMD, 2019). Beginning in the early 1940s, numerous gas attacks descended on Los Angeles, California streets. Several gas companies shut down due to the…

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) (2019), the Philippines has the 3rd highest mortality rate in Asia, averaging 120,000 deaths per year. (Enano, 2019) Air pollution is the presence of harmful chemicals in the air. Examples of these chemicals are called particulate matter which contains ammonia, sodium chloride, and many more (Ambag, 2018). Inhaling…

The concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere, as of 2018, is the highest it has been in 3 million years ( ). Greenhouse gases (GHG) contribute to higher temperatures and more heat waves (). The Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, also known as Assembly Bill 32 (AB 32), fights global warming by…

The essay presents the environmental injustice of the man-made air pollution in one of the world’s most air polluted city in the Delhi. The scale of injustice in the populous South-Asian cities are massively different than some of the know environmental injustice, the Flint Water crisis, the disaster of 100,000 people in the city of…

Executive Summary: There are lots of environmental problems such as air pollution, water pollution, noise pollution, and waste disposal problems that Hong Kong faces. Of these environmental issues, air pollution is the one that affects most citizens of Hong Kong. In the Planetary Urbanization lecture, Professor Vitz mentioned that 80% of the worlds urban population…

Robert Orben once said, There’s so much pollution in the air now that if it weren’t for our lungs there’d be no place to put it all. Air pollution comes from many places. The smokestack in a factory, car exhaust, gas from paint, and producing plastic are only a few of the many ways air…

Air pollution is known to hurt human health, contributing to approximately 3.4 million premature deaths globally in 2010. By looking at both different types of air pollution (PM2.5, ozone, etc.) and sources (road transportation, agriculture, household energy, shipping, etc.) it is possible to produce a global picture of air pollution distribution and how to most…

The air pollution solution I will be talking about today is the Paris Agreement. As Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus the director of WHO said: The Paris Agreement is potentially the strongest health agreement of this century. The goal of the Paris Agreement is to make our response to climate change stronger. They will do this…