The Quality Of Air Environment And Health Of The Great London

Air pollution continues to be a significant problem in the city of Birmingham, as it has been for decades. No one enjoys walking the streets of Birmingham only to taste or smell the smoke and particulates in the air, not to mention the damaging effects to one’s health. Fortunately, improvements have been made; forty years ago, residents of Birmingham could not even see the skyline due to the immense amounts of particulates in the air, but now the skyline is visible on a daily basis. The noticeable improvement indicates the progress that has been made over the years, but there is still plenty of room for much needed improvement. Birmingham’s air quality is among some of the worst in the United States, but there are several feasible and

As the exploration of the industrial development and increased speed of the urban sprawl in Beijing, many severe environmental issues attribute mainly to the anthropocentric activities have been come out of the scene. One of them is the air pollution. Air pollution has been regarded as the most severe environment issue in China since it has already threatened to physical health, especially for the respiratory tract and lung. “In January 2013, Beijing experienced historical heavy air pollution. In this particular month, very few days were observed with blue sky.” (Lijian Han et.al., 2015) According to the analysis of the driving factors, “the population grew fast, and energy consumption and the number of vehicles increased rapidly” (Ju Zhang et.al., 2010), these factors add together can make the air quality worse than any one of them separately can. Firstly, it has been an undoubted truth that more and more people originally lived in rural has been moved to core urban of Beijing since there are more opportunities in there. Therefore, the huge explosion of urban population with more energy release and more CO2 exhalation is seen as an inevitably primary factor causing the bad air quality. What’s more, as the population

By tracing the long-term pattern of London fog, a conclusion can be made, the Great Smog of London is not a spontaneous event, however, fog observation cannot be used as an estimate of air pollution. This article provides insightful and comprehensive information to the research topic, gives a better understanding of the meteorological, economic, and political situation at the time of the incident, helps to facilitate

Poor air quality is associated with some health issues from the short-term problems to severe

Air pollution has been recognized as a major threat to environmental health, and the effects that it can have on the population are extremely varied. In the environmental aspects, air

Since the last century, society has been witness of great deal of changes, as political as economic, and technological. These changes have opened a new world of possibilities which was not available before, people should consider themselves fortunate of living on the 21st century. There is access to information as has never been before. Nevertheless, change always has consequences, and on this time of technology is not the exception. The earth is dying slowly, the air people is breathing is not safe anymore. The United States has a bad air quality, an example of it, is the city of Houston, in the state of Texas. In fact, Houston’s pollution problem has become a dangerous health issue over the last years. To solve this severe problem is necessary

A thick and polluted smog blanketed London in the December of 1952. This four-day smog was so poisonous that left about 12,000 people dead and dramatically increase the hospital admission rate, claims for insurance and applications to emergency bed service (the indicators of morbidity) during that week and the following several months. Additionally, it is also so thick that have been reported to choked livestock to death and to brought in transport to a virtually standstill. This is not the first or the last smog hit London, but it has became a landmark of air pollution epidemiology not only because its scale of the

The abundance of pollution mixed with the heavy fog, made it toxic. Also, the reason so many people died is because the government did not take action until it was too late. “...was the worst air pollution crisis in European history” (Christopher). Not to mention, the cold winter days made more people burn more coal to keep warm. This put more smoke in the air. London was very populated, so there was also a lot of pollution from factories and businesses. The London officials did not give much warning because they did not think the smog was dangerous. Even when more and more people

Everyone in the New York metropolitan area breathes air that fails to meet the health standards, and citizens suffer serious health impact from breathing that dirty air. The relationship between air pollution and health affects everyone. Air pollution is constantly affecting people and putting them at sick, even though the degree of pollution is not at its highest. The public health significance of smoke, dust, gas, pollen, and microorganisms in the air are with a range of adverse health effects. These diseases spread and cause new disease to originate. Exposure to common urban air link to a wide range of adverse health outcomes, including respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, asthma exacerbation, reduced lung function and premature death.

Within the first two months after the removal of cars, there air quality in the surrounding areas actually deteriorated because of the changing of weather (Pluske) However, after one year of the car removal, air pollution within the road closure significantly decreased and Nuremberg had a decrease of Nitrous Oxide by over 30% because of the elimination of cars. This can be directly seen in the figure below. The figure describes the change of spatial air structure of NO2 from the 1980s to the late 1990’s where the upwind pushes the air out of the city and then circulates back to the city. From the years of 1981-1985 which was before the removal of cars, the nitrous oxide was in the form of a bell shape curve where the pollution reached a peak percentage in the middle of the city, however, after the removal of cars it can be seen that there is a downward trend of nitrious oxide within the area and in the

This discussion paper will identify the relationship between air pollution in the city of Toronto and its health impact on the local population. Then this paper will identify the cause of the air pollution in Toronto and the current policies established to counter this problem. Finally the paper will propose a policy that can work in conjunction with some of the current initiatives and will provide explanation of this policy and its advantages over other alternatives.

When people think of New York, they think of roaming Times Square, walking through Central Park and maybe even watch a Broadway show. Visiting New York is an adventure or vacation for most people and they want to have fun and explore, but they shouldn’t have to worry about whether they’ll get sick or not. Unfortunately, New York nowadays has a “significant environmental threat contributing to an estimated of 6% annual deaths,” air pollution (Air Pollution., 2016). Despite the increase in environmental concerns, New York has been taking steps in order to improve its air quality.

Air, is one of the most substantial source to mankind and our planet. While it exists, so does everything else along. However, in today’s epidemic, there has been certain factors that have increased in understanding whether the air we breathe today is healthy or not? Is it doing more harm than we thought? In other words, the health risks against air pollution have risen in the past few decades; all from what you may ask? Well, it could be for various factors and evaluations; either environmental or materialistic. Pollution is a major public health crisis in the world. (Friis, 2012). This is one of the conflicts that contribute to various aspects of an individual’s life, whether they may realize it or not. In this paper will include the sources that cause pollution with the effects it cause as well as policies on the regulation of air pollution.

Nitrogen oxide can also be a harmful pollutant found in large cities. Lichens are affected by the amount of nitrogenous pollutants in an area, similar to how they are affected by sulfur dioxide. In future studies, we could potentially assess both sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide levels in the atmosphere by assessing the lichen population within that area. This can provide a larger amount of information

Two contemporary studies have gone further to explore the relationship between VOCs and NOx in specific regions, analyzing the sources and the potential improvements. The UC Berkeley based team of Pusede and Cohen (2012)8 explored the effects of nitrogen oxides and VOC reactivity in the San Joaquin Valley California. Using 16 years of statistical based data collection from 1995-2011, they were able to draw some conclusions about the regions ozone cycle. First of their major findings was that they came across three separate pathways to decrease ozone production. The first is to decrease NOx constant VOCR, or VOC reactivity. The second was to decrease VOCR at a constant NOx. And the third was to reduce