Air pollution Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
presence of dangerous substances in the atmosphere
About Air pollution
—Tom Lehrer,Pollution Air pollution results from a combination of factors, often human-related, that create hazy skies — or worse — in large cities or metropolitan areas. For most people, air pollution, unless it reaches unusual levels, is not dangerous but can be unpleasant. Pollution in cities tends to build up during weekdays, hitting a maximum before the weekend. Air pollution problems are often worsened by specific geographic features and environmental conditions such asinversion(a warm layer of air sitting atop a cold layer of air and thus "blocking" all air beneath it from rising). This results in the polluted air being trapped, allowing it build up to worse, or even dangerous, heights. The pollution problem can be seasonal, such as when inversion is common some part of the year, wi
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