Group 3 Air Pollution

Breathing life: Unraveling the complexities of air pollution and its impact on
animals, plants and human health in the environment.
GROUP 3- AIR POLLUTION
“Environmental pollution is not only humanity’s treason to humanity but also a treason
to all other living creatures on earth”- Mehmet Murat ildan. Our mother earth needs
help, free air today; oxygen tanks tomorrow.
Air Pollution is a widespread problem affecting the world as a whole. Air pollution
consists of chemicals or particles in the air that can harm the health of humans,
animals, and plants. It also damages buildings. Pollution enters the Earth's
atmosphere in many different ways. Most air pollution is created by people, taking the
form of emissions from factories, cars, planes, or aerosol cans. Second-hand cigarette
smoke is also considered air pollution.
Breathing in these pollutants leads to inflammation, oxidative stress, and mutagenicity

in cells throughout our body, impacting the lungs, heart, brain among other organs and
ultimately leading to disease. It contributes to the premature deaths of millions of
people each year around the world, and air quality problems are growing in many
developing nations.
WHO data show that almost all of the global population (99%) breathe air that exceeds
WHO guideline limits and contains high levels of pollutants, with low- and middle-
income countries suffering from the highest exposures.
Wildlife can experience many of the same negative health effects of air pollution that
humans do. Damage to respiratory systems is the most common effect on animals,
but neurological problems and skin irritations are also common. Plants and crops grow
less when exposed to long-term air pollution. Ozone pollution harms plants by
damaging structures called stomata, which are tiny pores on the underside of leaves
that allow the plant to "breathe." Some types of plants can protect themselves by
temporarily closing their stomata or producing antioxidants, but others are particularly
sensitive to damage. When acid rain, lead toxicity, and exposure to nitrogen oxides
change the chemical nature of the soil, plants are robbed of the nutrients that they
need to grow and survive. This impacts agriculture, forests, and grasslands. There
are many other ways that air pollution affects living things, such as damaging the
habitat, water, and food sources that plants and animals need to survive.
Air pollution have been and continue to be significant contributors to chronic diseases
and mortality, hence affecting public health. Chronic diseases include COPD, CVD,
asthma, and cancer. Oxidative stress byproducts present in air pollution are common
initiators or promoters of damage in chronic illnesses. These air contaminants include
ozone, sulfur oxides, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and particle matter. The
interaction of oxidative stress byproducts and particular genes in our population may
influence the manifestation of some chronic diseases.
As well as having effects on human health and animals, air pollution can also be
harmful to our natural environment. Pollutants in the air can be toxic to sensitive plants
and trees, while pollutants in rainfall damage habitats by depositing acid or excess
nutrients. Water bodies such as rivers and lakes are also susceptible to the effects of
air pollution. The most significant air pollution for our natural environment occurs when
reactive nitrogen compounds, such as ammonia and nitrogen oxides, are deposited to
sensitive sites.
Deposition can be through direct contact between polluted air and plants. This type of
deposition is called ‘dry deposition’ and it mostly happens close to pollution sources.
Air quality plays a imperative role in maintaining ecological balance and protecting the
public's health. It creates smog and acid rain, causes cancer and respiratory diseases,
reduces the ozone layer in atmosphere and contributes to global warming. In this
industrial age, air pollution cannot be eliminated completely, but steps can be taken to
reduce it.
The health of the public, especially those who are the most vulnerable, such as
children, the elderly and the sick, is at risk from air pollution, but it is difficult to say
how large the risk is. It is possible that the problem has been over-stressed in relation
to other challenges in the field of public health. Air pollution has long been known to
have an adverse effect on plants. At first, it was only sulphur dioxide that was
considered a dangerous pollutant. Now, with the advent of various pesticides and new
Industrial processes, the range of harmful pollutants has multiplied tremendously. This
dissertation allocated the effect of air pollution on plants and animals. Our nature is
continue disturbed by effects of air pollution and once nature will lost we can't survive
well.
The health effects of air pollution have been subject to intense study in recent years.
Exposure to pollutants such as airborne participate matter and ozone has been
associated with increases in mortality and hospital admissions due to respiratory and
cardiovascular disease. These effects have been found in short-term studies, which
relate day-to-day variations in air pollution and health, and long-term studies, which
have followed cohorts of exposed individuals over time. Effects have been seen at
very low levels of exposure, and it is unclear whether a threshold concentration exists
for particulate matter and ozone below which no effects on health are likely. In this
review, we discuss the evidence for adverse effects on health of selected air
pollutants.

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Breathing life: Unraveling the complexities of air pollution and its impact on

animals, plants and human health in the environment.

GROUP 3- AIR POLLUTION

Breathing in these pollutants leads to inflammation, oxidative stress, and mutagenicity

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