How does photochemical smog differ from industrial smog?
London-type smog is caused mainly by air pollution due to combustion of coal and emission of sulphur dioxide and dust. Photochemical smog is a type of air pollution produced when sunlight acts upon motor vehicle exhaust gases to form harmful substances.
What agency is in charge of air and water pollution legislation and enforcement?
EPA ie. the Environmental Protection Agency
No, they are a closed system, releasing nothing into the air.
Using solar panels reduces pollution to the extent that they are used to replace sources of electricity that burn fossil fuels (oil, gas, and coal).
EPA's most dangerous indoor air pollutant?
Radon is an indoor air pollutant that can be a warning to home owners.
they through trash and waste to the waters which effected animals and humans who lived in the villages and also.humans brought global warming which attracted the sun and dried up the rivers and started the crisis
What are the pollutants found in air?
Some pollutants found in the air are:
1. Ozone
2. Particulate Matter
3. Carbon Monoxide
4. Nitrogen Oxides
5. Sulfur Dioxide
6. Lead
How much erosion and pollution is caused by tourism?
Tourists erode areas they travel to in many different ways such as by walking along paths they are wearing away the path a tiny bit, this process is called abrasian. Pollution occurs when tourists litter areas that they travel to or if they drive a car to get to their tourist destination they are polluting the air with car fumes or if they travel by boat they are polluting the lakes or seas with oil and other toxic chemicals. Tourists can also disrupt habitats that animals live in by disturbing them or ruining their habitat.
How does land pollution affect people?
People are affected because we are in the polluted environment, so we have to breathe the polluted air, and suffer the consequences of the polluted rivers, oceans, lands and even atmosphere, where carbon dioxide is warming up the globe.
Who are the industry leaders in chemical companies?
Major U.S. corporations that produce specialty chemicals include ExxonMobil Corp., Kich Industries Inc., ChevronTexaco Corp., and Merck and Company Inc. Other leading companies are Nalco Chemical
How does pollution affect the human body?
Industrial pollution can affect human health in many ways. Pollution could be a hazardous which can not only affect human health but also animals.oil spills, bio-hazard, nuclear issues that have happened.also it may be valid that it might spread through the populations.
For example, if water pollution, should it get into the drinking water reservoir, it could easily causes human illness. Especially to the digestive system. Air pollution can adversely affect human lungs and cause many types of lung disease.
Carbon dioxide emissions pollute the atmosphere causing global warming, a danger to our future health.
How much oil is in the leaking BP well?
Sometimes simple questions do not have simple answers. It is sufficient to say that the estimates have a large range, and are subject to change. My comments are valid for June 11, 2010 only.
Right now, BP is capturing oil coming out of the well using the LMRP. They indicated that it is capturing about 15,000 thousand barrels of oil per day (15 MB/D).
The US Geological Survey (Marcia McNutt, task force leader) was initially assigned responsibility to identify rates. The rate question is now being addressed by three teams- See related link.
The Plume Modeling Group estimates as of June 10, 2010, the oil coming out of the riser prior to the use of the insertion tube is 25 to 30 MB/D, but then give an outside range of 20 to 40 MB/D. This is not the current rate, but what might have been flowing nearly a month ago.
Unfortunately, this isn't the rate coming out now, because they cut the marine riser in preparation for the LMRP. Everyone agrees that this should increase the rate, the the experts have given an opinion on how much this should increase the estimates.
Some of the oil coming to the surface is also being loss by evaporation, skimming and controlled burns. The experts have not yet given an opinion on how much this should decrease the estimates.
However, if we ignore the increase and all the decreases except for BP's estimate of what is captured by the LMRP, an estimate of the current spill rate using the outer range numbers is 5 to 25 MB/D. This can be converted to millions of gallons by multiplying the numbers by 0.042, yielding 0.21 to 1.05 million gpd.
Remember this does not include (1) increase due to cutting of riser and (2) evaporation, burning and skimming decreases. Using the lower range of estimates, the claim that this is the largest accidental oil spill in the US is correct, and has far surpassed the volumes spilled by the Exxon-Valdez. Also, I note that in many of the largest spills, recovered oil was nominal, so just the total spilled (from the well or tanker) was reported. In this case, the reductions as mentioned above are significant.
See link.
How many people die of air pollution everyday?
Answer: Estimates range as high as 40% of the worlds deaths are attributable to pollution. The problem of arriving at a figure is to determine if pollution is directly, indirectly or marginally related to any specific death
Based on this rate, here is an estimate of the incidence of death among people now living in the world with the equivalent pollution related rates in brackets: * 1.78 deaths per second ( 0.4/sec)
* 107 deaths per minute (27/min)
* 6,390 deaths per hour (1,356/hr)
* 153,000 deaths per day (37,000/day)
* 56.0 million deaths per year (14 million/yr)
Why is noise pollution more common in urban areas?
Noise pollution is more common in urban areas because of the large amount of people and traffic coexisting in a small area.
Are plastics environmentally friendly?
The reason plastic is bad for the Earth is that when plastic finds it's way into landfills, it takes much more time to return to its Earthly matter.
Also, try visiting a few of these websites to get more information, as I am not 100 percent sure of my own answer.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=2138565&page=1
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080130092108.htm
Here is the best result I have found about why plastic bottles are harmful for our environment.
http://julesmay.wordpress.com/2007/10/02/why-recycling-is-bad-for-the-environment/
What energy source causes the least pollution on earth?
The energy sources producing the least pollution (in no particular order) are:
Short speech on environmental pollution?
natural sources of air pollution may occur due to the following 1) Due to the volcanic action - 2) Due to the burning of forests - 3) Dust swarms - 4) Emotion of gases from algees in water.- 5) Decomposing of animal bodies -
Illness caused from drinking bad water?
"Uncontaminated" basically means "not dirty".
"not dirty" is pretty much the same as "clean", and clean water won't give you any diseases.
Is the United States the most polluted country in the world?
No. The United States is the second most polluted country in the world.
The top 5 polluted countries in the world, according to United Nations figures, are:
10 ways of how humans affect the environment?
Changing it could be making it worse. Improving would be, picking up waste, helping your environment!!
How much pollution does a wind turbine produce?
Very little or none at all, they're one of the greenest electricity source.
How are people taking care of pollution?
Yes if we don't do something about it the world might be like any other planet in the solar system dark and lonely no sign of life existing on that planet should really stop littering and smoking.