How do airships affect the environment?

Answer 1

Airships, AKA planes, release a lot of Carbon Dioxide, thus polluting the air around the area the plane flew over. The gas that planes drop is called aviation, which can get into waterways or food transportion, making the food semi-toxic.

Guardian.com recently release a way to help change this:

For anyone concerned about their contribution to global warming, cutting back on air travel is an obvious goal. This might mean giving up flying altogether or it might mean taking fewer flights and picking destinations that are closer to home. It's true that short flights tend to be more harmful to the climate per mile travelled than long-haul flights are (because they have more empty seats, and because taking off and landing burns more fuel than cruising) but this doesn't change the fact that the further you travel, the greater the emissions that will result.

If you do fly, you can in theory make some small difference to the carbon impact by favouring day-time flights. This at least means that any contrails (see 'What's an aviation multiplier?' below) caused by the plane will reflect some sunlight away from the Earth in addition to locking warmth into the atmosphere. Also consider limiting your luggage.

Finally, you might want to consider which airlines you use. People often assume that budget flights are somehow more eco-unfriendly than expensive ones. In fact, the opposite tends to be true. Budget airlines pack more passengers on each flight and typically have younger, more fuel-efficient fleets than longer-established airlines. Indeed, the least eco-friendly tickets of all aren't the cheapest but the most expensive.Business-class and first-class seats take up more space on the plane, thereby reducing the number of people who can fit on each flight.

Planes can also affect our environment by the noise it makes. In some cases, airships (planes) can cause traffic and/or accidents due to the loud noise of the engine.

Planes can actually affect the weather. When a plane flies, it leaves a layer of smog, causing it to float around in the atmosphere Once the smog floats back down, it cools off the air surrounding us.

Sources:

Guardian.com

NASA.gov

TheDailyBeast.com

Helium.com

lfv.com

Generalaviationnews.com