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Fast Facts
air pollution: Additional Information
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- environmental health
causes
transportation
- automotive emissions
- diesel engines
- mass transit
- vehicles
- coal processing
- hydrogen chloride
- nitric oxide
- In nitric oxide
- sulfur oxides
- sulfur production
- urban sprawl
- volatile organic content
effect on
- agriculture
- Arctic and Antarctica
- Athens
- London
- Los Angeles
- Manchester
- Moscow
- mountain lands
- paintings and sculpture
- plants
- Russian taiga
- Tehrān
- Ukraine
- urban climate and weather
- Venice
measurement and detection
- chemical separation and measurement
- ice samples
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Article History
| Type | Contributor | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Associated Press update. | Jun 08, 2023 | ||
| Deleted Web site: LiveScience - Pollution Facts & Types of Pollution. | Nov 30, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: United States Environment Protection Agency - Air Pollution: Current and Future Challenges. | Oct 25, 2022 | ||
| Media added. | Oct 19, 2020 | ||
| Added information on the recovery of the ozone layer and noted the 2020 atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. | Oct 19, 2020 | ||
| Media added. | Dec 17, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: NASA Climate Kids - What causes air pollution? | Nov 27, 2019 | ||
| Revised the atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide and added cross-references throughout. | Oct 31, 2018 | ||
| Added tables "Criteria air pollutants" and "Important hazardous air pollutants (air toxics)." | Oct 31, 2018 | ||
| Media added. | Oct 31, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: Environmental Pollution Centers - What is Air Pollution? | Mar 15, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: ThoughtCo. - A Definition of Air Pollution. | Mar 13, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: Natural Resources Defense Council - Air Pollution: Everything You Need to Know. | Jan 12, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: LiveScience - Pollution Facts & Types of Pollution. | Dec 18, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences - Air Pollution. | Aug 31, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Air Pollution. | Aug 31, 2011 | ||
| Table of criteria air pollutants added. | Feb 18, 2010 | ||
| Table of hazardous air pollutants added. | Feb 16, 2010 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Jan 22, 2010 | ||
| Added new Web site: National Geographic - Air Pollution. | Apr 19, 2009 | ||
| New article added. | Feb 19, 2009 |
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