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  2. Air pollution - Wikipedia

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    Air pollution can cause diseases, allergies, and even death; it can also cause harm to animals and crops and damage the natural environment (for example, climate change, ozone depletion or habitat degradation) or built environment (for example, acid rain). [2] Air pollution can occur naturally or be caused by human activities. [3]

  3. National Ambient Air Quality Standards - Wikipedia

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    The six criteria air pollutants were the first set of pollutants recognized by the United States Environmental Protection Agency as needing standards on a national level. [5] The Clean Air Act requires the EPA to set US National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for the six CAPs. [ 6 ]

  4. List of countries by air pollution - Wikipedia

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    Air pollution is among the biggest health problems of modern industrial society and is responsible for more than 10 percent of all deaths worldwide (nearly 4.5 million premature deaths in 2019), according to The Lancet. Air pollution can affect nearly every organ and system of the body, negatively affecting nature and humans alike.

  5. The air in your home could be making you sick - AOL

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    A fan draws in polluted air and layers of filters capture and remove airborne pollutants, before expelling cleaner air. Most purifiers capture particles like dust and pollen, but the best air ...

  6. Particulate pollution - Wikipedia

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    In European countries, air quality at or above 10 micrograms per cubic meter of air (μg/m 3) for PM 2.5 increases the all-causes daily mortality rate by 0.2-0.6% and the cardiopulmonary mortality rate by 6-13%. [35] Worldwide, PM 10 concentrations of 70 μg/m 3 and PM 2.5 concentrations of 35 μg/m 3 have been shown to increase long-term ...

  7. AI's $20 billion air-pollution problem

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    Researchers have found that the training of one large language model — like Meta's Llama 3.1 — would generate as much air pollution as a car driving round trip from New York to Los Angeles ...

  8. From masks to AC units: All the dos and don’ts to keep safe ...

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    Masks can protect you from deadly air pollutants found in wildfire smoke such as fine particulate matter, also known as PM 2.5. But not all masks are created equal.

  9. Pollution in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Air pollution is caused predominantly by burning fossil fuels, cars, and much more. [4] Natural sources of air pollution include forest fires, volcanic eruptions, wind erosion, pollen dispersal, evaporation of organic compounds, and natural radioactivity. These natural sources of pollution often soon disperse and thin settling near their locale.