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    Air Pollution

    What is Pollution?

    The change in the environment caused by natural or artificial input of harmful contaminants into the
    environment, and may cause instability, disruption or harmful effects to the ecosystem.

    Thus, Pollution is essentially the introduction of toxins into the natural setting that causes negative
    changes. Pollution can take the form of biochemical substances or energy, such as noise, heat or light.
    Contaminants, the constituents of pollution, can be one or the other, foreign substances/energies or
    naturally found pollutants.

    Table of contents

     What Is Air Pollution?


     Types Of Air Pollution
     Man-Made (Artificial) Sources
     Natural Sources
     Effects Of Air Pollution
     Prevention Of Air Pollution
     FAQs

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    What is Air Pollution?

    Air pollution is defined as the introduction of pollutants, organic molecules, or other unsafe materials
    into Earth’s atmosphere. This can be in the form of excessive gases like carbon dioxide and other
    vapours that cannot be effectively removed through natural cycles, such as the carbon cycle or the
    nitrogen cycle.

    Types of Air Pollution

    1. Man-made (Artificial) sources

    These are mostly linked to the combustion of several kinds of fuel.

    Immobile sources entail clouds of smoke from power plants, industrial facilities (manufacturing works)
    and waste furnaces, as well as incinerators and other sorts of fuel-burning heating devices. In poor and
    developing countries, archaic biomass burning is the chief cause of air pollution; traditional biomass
    embraces wood, crop leftovers and excrement.

    Movable sources comprise automobiles, aquatic vessels, and planes.

    Controlled burning is a procedure sometimes used in forest management, agriculture, prairie re-
    establishment. Fire is an accepted facet of both forest and grassland ecosystem and an organized fire can
    be an instrument for foresters. Precise burning kindles the sprouting of some desirable trees, thus
    renewing the forest.

    Fumes from hair spray, paint, aerosol sprays, varnish and other solvents

    Waste deposits in landfills create methane. Methane is extremely combustible and may form an explosive
    and volatile concoction with air. Methane is furthermore an asphyxiant and may displace oxygen in a
    sealed-off space. Suffocation may result if the oxygen concentration goes below 19.5% by displacement.

    Military resources, such as nuclear weapons, toxic gasses, germ warfare and rocketry
    2. Natural sources

     Dirt from natural sources, typically big areas of land with little or no plant life.
     Methane, discharged by the breakdown of food (digestion) by animals, for example, cattle
     Smoke and CO from jungle fires.
     Volcanic activity, which emits sulphur, chlorine, and ash particulates
     Causes of Major Effects of Air Pollution
     Air pollution has a very negative effect on humans and the ecosystem. The constituents can be dense
    particles, fluid, or gasses. A contaminant can be of natural or artificial. Contaminants are categorized as
    primary or secondary.

    Primary contaminants are typically created by the emission of carbon dioxide from vehicles and factories.
    Secondary pollutants are the contaminants which are not emitted directly into the atmosphere. They are
    formed in the atmosphere when prime pollutants react or intermingle. Ground-level ozone is an important
    example of a secondary pollutant.

    Some contaminants may be both primary and secondary: they are both emitted directly and formed from
    other primary pollutants.
    Effects of Air pollution

     Respirational and cardio complications: The adverse impacts of Air pollution are distressing. They are the
    root of numerous respirational and cardiac conditions accompanied by Cancer, midst other threats to our
    body. More than a few million are known to have expired due to direct or unforeseen effects of Air
    contamination. Kids in areas open to air contaminants are said to suffer frequently from pneumonia and
    asthma.

     Global warming: One more direct consequence is the speedy changes that the world is observing due to
    Global warming. With the increase in temperatures worldwide, an increase in sea levels and melting of ice
    from cold areas and icebergs, displacement and loss of habitat have already beckoned an imminent disaster
    if actions for protection and regulation aren’t undertaken soon.

     Acid Rain: Dangerous gasses like NO2 and SO2 are released into the atmosphere during the incineration of
    fuels. When it rains, the droplets combine with these pollutants, become acidic and then fall on the ground
    in the form of acid rain. Acid rain is a source of great harm to human beings, wildlife and crops.

     Eutrophication: It is a process where a high amount of nitrogen present in some contaminants gets morphs
    on the sea’s surface and develops itself into algae and harmfully affect fish, plant life and animal species.
    The green-coloured algae that are present in lakes and ponds are due to the presence of this substance only.

     Diminution of Ozone layer: Ozone is present in the Earth’s atmosphere (Stratosphere) and is responsible
    for shielding humans from injurious ultraviolet (UV) rays. Earth’s ozone layer is diminishing because of the
    presence of chlorofluorocarbons and hydrochlorofluorocarbons in the atmosphere.

    Prevention of Air Pollution

    Some important measures that can be adopted by individuals to contribute towards the prevention of air
    pollution have been listed below.

     Usage of public transport and carpooling


     Switching off the lights when they’re not in use
     Reusing and recycling products
     Avoiding the burning of garbage and smoking
     Avoiding the use of firecrackers

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