Category: Air Pollution

Air pollution is a significant issue we face in the modern world, especially those who live in large cities. Two factors further compound these dangers. The first is the visibility of the pollution as the human eye cannot see most pollutants. It leaves people unaware of any possible threat, for example, it is estimated that…

SA long journey starts with a single step. What started four years ago as a journey to prosperity has achieved its mark? How did it go that fast? It appears to me like it was just yesterday when the high school journey was starting. You’ve had to wake up at six in the morning. You…

Scientists have recently discovered that connections between global warming and the levels of pollutants in the air have undeniably started to become more noticeable within recent years. Throughout the air, increasing temperatures caused by global warming raise the amount of aerosols. These particles along with many others, are what causes air pollution. Aerosols are microscopic…

Introduction: Air Pollution is a huge problem around the globe, usually, transportation vehicles produce the most air pollution besides factories and miners. Oh, and air pollution isn’t just a problem in Ho Chi Minh City or Vietnam. It’s a whole world problem, and it needs to be solved otherwise we will live in a future…

When we walk out of the door on a Monday morning, the first word that comes to our mind is ‘school’. When a student walks out of the door in China, the first word they think about is ‘pollution.’ Air pollution. In China, people suffer every day for no reason at all by breathing in…

When I got on the BX 12 Select Bus Service, I overheard the driver on Fordham Road state, “I do not know what I am breathing, but I do know that it is toxic.” I agreed with the bus driver’s statement. The Fordham Road community is near the South Bronx, which has the highest rate…

Today I will be informing you about the negative effects air pollution has on our health, concerning my generation and future generations. In Australia, 3,056 premature deaths are caused due to air pollution, with the costs for these deaths ranging from around $11 billion to $24 billion per year. This number will only get worse…

Pollution is a very serious global issue that needs to be fixed for our environment to sustain for future generations to come. The pollution that we see in our society today is unhealthy and in some extreme cases, it could be dangerous to people. Even after many attempts by our world leaders, pollution is still…

Every day around 93% of the world’s kids under the age of 15 years (1.8 billion children) breathe air that is so polluted it places their health and development at serious risk. Tragically, many of them die: WHO estimates that in 2016, 600,000 youngsters died from acute lower respiratory infections caused by polluted air. A…

The respiratory system is a series of organs responsible for taking in oxygen and expelling carbon dioxide (www.livescience.com, 2016). Out of all the organs, the main organs used are the lungs. The lungs are the breathing center, regulating the air that goes in and out. Though the respiratory system controls breathing, sometimes what gets breathed…