After reading this article you will learn about air pollution and its impact on health. The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines air pollution, as "substances put into the air by the activity of mankind into concentrations sufficient to cause harmful effects to health, property, crop yield or to interfere with the enjoyment of property". Air pollution is a major environmental [...]
This article provides notes on urban energy demand in India. The environmental effects due to increasing consumption levels of fuels like coal; lignite, oil and nuclear etc. are of growing concern to various researchers. The combustion of these fuels in industries has been a major source of pollution. Coal production through open cast mining; its supply to and consumption in [...]
Get the answer of: What is Montreal Protocol? In 1985 an international agreement, the Vienna Convention, was signed after three years of negotiating under the auspices of the United Nations Environment Programme. The Vienna Convention established mechanisms for international cooperation in research, monitoring, and exchange of data on emissions, on concentrations of CFCs and halons, and on the status of [...]