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How is air quality measured?
Even something as simple as breathing can get complicated.
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What are microplastics?
What lies beneath? Plastic, probably.
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Major types of pollution explained
Learn more about the major kinds of pollution in this infographic explainer.
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Learn how pollution from industrial emissions and car exhaust is trapped against mountains to cause smog
Smog formation and entrapment over Los Angeles.
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Visit Germany's Black Forest to study the effects of industrial emissions, urban smog, and acid rain
Testing rainwater and air for acidity at a research station in the Black Forest,...
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air pollution in Mexico City
Pollution darkening the skies over Mexico City.
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air pollution in Gurgaon, India
Air pollution in Gurgaon, Haryana state, India.
© Pranay Chandra Singh/Shutterstock.com
Automobile emissions
Air pollution from vehicle tailpipes. A number of criteria pollutants, including...
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SO2 and NOx emissions in the U.S.
SO2 and NOx emissions in the U.S., 2008.
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ozone damage on leaf
Ozone damage on the leaf of an English walnut (Juglans regia).
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Bhopal, India: pesticide plant
A portion of the remains of the former Union Carbide pesticide plant, Bhopal, Madhya...
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air pollution
Air pollution from factory smokestacks.
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greenhouse effect on Earth
The greenhouse effect on Earth. Some incoming sunlight is reflected by Earth's atmosphere...
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Great Smog of London
A police officer wearing a mask during the Great Smog of London, December 1952.
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ozone depletion
Antarctic ozone hole, September 17, 2001.
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
carbon dioxide emissions
Map of annual carbon dioxide emissions by country in 2014.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
air pollution
Air pollution emitting from an industrial smokestack. The pollutants released into...
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Figure 10: Air pollution injury to vegetation.
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