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Environmental Pollution and it's types | Health and Safety

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Have a glance at the spritzer nature at its excited best turquoise blue sky, an eyeful of green sparkling waters barraging wilderness and what about the land of vanishing beauty shrinking open space of gray concrete sooty air, drying land, dirty waters, and endangered wilderness. This change, which is named environmental degradation has become a serious issue before the planet. Let’s then begin with water pollution. Pollution is an undesirable change in the physicochemical or biological characteristics of air, water, and soil. Due to the addition of materials or energy in quantity, and quality which is harmful to living beings including man, thus substances that contaminate air, water, and soil are called pollutants. Pollutants may be gases like carbon monoxide, sulfur oxides, and nitric oxides. Metals like lead, zinc, and Mercury. Chemicals like aldehydes, detergents, pesticides, herbicides, and CFCs sewage radioactive wastes, and soon types of pollution are air, water, land...

Air Pollution "A world Health Problem" | Health and Safety

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Hi, and welcome to this overview of air pollution. Air pollution nowadays is considered as a major public health issue right around this world. In this blog, we discuss about outdoor air pollution, what are the types of pollutants and sources. We’ll also take a look at ways to reduce air pollution and see how air quality is monitored. Moving from there we discuss indoor air pollution, the consequences, the sources of pollution, and ways in which we can reduce it. What is air pollution? Air pollution occurs when the air is contaminated with any kind of chemical-physical or biological agents. it is the world’s largest environmental health risk, leading to millions of deaths around the world each year. Although anyone can be affected by air pollution people who are most vulnerable include elderly children and people with chronic lung or heart disease. Let’s take a look at outdoor air pollution first the outdoor air can be polluted by natural sources or human sources natu...