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Chen, Max. when i goto my familiar position for take photos. this picture was what i saw. Air pollution make me can not point out the direction of my home. what can we do make this view will not happened again ? UnSplash, 2 Dec. 2018, www.nh.gov/epht/environmental-topics/air.htm.
This week, I read New Hampshire Public Health Tracking, which is an article that focuses on air quality.
The main idea of this article is that they are focusing on what air quality is, what causes it, how they track and measure the air, and the health risks in poor air quality.
One idea that I found interesting was New Hampshire had quite a lot of measuring points, 14 around the state.
I thought it was interesting because while doing more research about air quality I looked into Brazil's air quality I noticed that they did have a good amount as well. Knowing that it is also a whole country instead of just a state like NH, which also made me wonder what our pollutants were, and whether they were different or the same.
It made me wonder what the pollutants are and what causes them, so I looked up some more information about this idea.
On the website New Hampshire Environmental Public Health Tracking on air quality, I found more information about what air quality was, what causes poor air, where it is measured in NH, and what are some health impacts on having poor air quality in your area.
One piece of information I found was things that can cause bad air quality are Carbon Monoxide, Lead, Nitrogen Dioxide, Ozone, Particulate Matter, and Sulfur Dioxide. In NH they measure the air quality in Concord, Keene, Laconia, Lebanon Airport, Londonderry, Mount Washington Base, Nashua, Portsmouth, Seacoast, Miller State Park, Mount Washington summit, and Pembroke. This information/facts supported the information in the original article/text.
Like I had said before I was wondering about what was causing these pollutants in the air, and with my research I found that in Brazil has a tendency to have a heavy reliance on vehicles, and as such much of its year-round ambient pollution levels would stem from the fumes and smoke emitted from automobiles. Not helping with that Many of these vehicles are of an older and more ancient variety, more prominently so in rural areas. Besides running on the aforementioned unique ethanol based fuels, other sources of vehicular pollution would come from ones that run on fossil fuels, particularly low quality diesel fuel, all of which give off their fair share of pollutants.
I thought about that for a minute and I thought that, well as an American teen I know that the majority of the U.S also uses vehicles to get around. But then knowing that we have more advanced cars with eco friendly abilities, Brazil does not have that. They do keep up with their measuring of the quality and are slowly get better air.
Works Cited
Chen, Max. when i goto my familiar position for take photos. this picture was what i
saw. air pollution make me can not point out the direction of my home. what can we
do make this view will not happened again ? UnSplash, 2 Dec. 2018, www.nh.gov/
epht/environmental-topics/air.htm.
Ministério Público de Estado do Acre, Companhia Ambiental do Estado de São Paulo
(CETESB). "Air Quality In Brazil." IQAir, www.iqair.com/brazil. Accessed 14 Jan.
2021.
State of New Hampshire. "Air Quality." New Hampshire Environmental Public Health
Tracking, www.nh.gov/epht/environmental-topics/air.htm. Accessed 14 Jan. 2021.
Elizabeth, is there a place in the world that has figured out how to improve air quality?
ReplyDeleteDon't forget in-text citations.
Not any that I could find, but with researching that I found that the majority has said to just do your part. But cities must follow the data to know what's wrong, that will allow the increasing availability of lower-cost air quality sensors, which can gather data more effectively, letting us figure out what is in the air.
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