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e. Air pollution is the contamination of air due to the presence of substances called pollutants in the atmosphere that are harmful to the health of humans and other living beings, or cause damage to the climate or to materials. [ 1] It is also the contamination of the indoor or outdoor environment either by chemical, physical, or biological ...
Anthropogenic air pollution has affected the United States since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. [2] According to a 2024 report: "39% of people living in America—131.2 million people—still live in places with failing grades for unhealthy levels of ozone or particle pollution."
The ozone hole was much more seen as a "hot issue" and imminent risk compared to global climate change, [13] as lay people feared a depletion of the ozone layer (ozone shield) risked increasing severe consequences such as skin cancer, cataracts, [23] damage to plants, and reduction of plankton populations in the ocean's photic zone. This was ...
August 2, 2024 at 4:15 PM. An air quality alert was issued by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on Friday at 3 p.m. for Saturday. The alert is for Wise, Denton, Collin, Hunt, Parker ...
TCEQ issues ozone pollution alert affecting North Texas Friday. STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT. August 8, 2024 at 3:55 PM. On Thursday at 2:37 p.m. an air quality alert was issued by the Texas ...
STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT. July 18, 2024 at 3:06 PM. David Montesino/dmontesino@star-telegram.com. An air quality alert was issued by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for Friday. The ...
Ozone depletion consists of two related events observed since the late 1970s: a steady lowering of about four percent in the total amount of ozone in Earth's atmosphere, and a much larger springtime decrease in stratospheric ozone (the ozone layer) around Earth's polar regions. [ 1] The latter phenomenon is referred to as the ozone hole.
Atmospheric conditions are expected to be favorable for producing high levels of ozone air pollution in the Dallas-Fort Worth area on Friday. You can help prevent ozone pollution by sharing a ride ...