This is one of the major problems facing the undeveloped countries most especially the third world countries. Most times air pollution has lead to the death of humans ,animal and also destruction of plants .
Pollutants.
These are any substance high enough in the atmosphere to cause damage to the atmosphere. pollutants either come from man made sources or natural sources. natural sources are majorly particulate matter e.g dust while some man made sources include; emission from industry ,car exhausts ,coal combustion e.t.c.
Damages caused by pollutant.
• Death of living things
• Depletion of the ozone layer
• Change in climatic condition
• Inhaling harmful gases
• Unwanted diseases and infections
• Some of these gases are highly carcinogenic(causes cancer).
• Famine
Most developed countries have various standard and organization set up to curb pollution on the environment. most green house gases causes pollution ;examples includes
• SO2(sulphur di oxide)
• CO2(carbon di oxide)
• NO2(nitogen di oxide)
• 03(ozone)
• CH4 (methane)
lets also take note:pollution occur indoor majorly through the use of cooking gas.let also try to adapt to clean cooking stoves which helps in reducing pollution in our homes'