Air pollution is the presence of substances in the air that are harmful to humans, other living beings or the environment. Pollutants can be gases, like ozone or nitrogen oxides, or small particles li
Before flue-gas desulfurization was installed, the emissions from this power plant in New Mexico contained excessive amounts of sulfur dioxide.
Controlled burning of a field outside of Statesboro, Georgia, US, in preparation for spring planting.
E-waste processing in Agbogbloshie, Ghana, using open-burning of electronics to access valuable metals like copper.
Smoking fish over an open fire in Ghana, 2018.
Ground-level ozone, also known as surface-level ozone and tropospheric ozone, is a trace gas in the troposphere, with an average concentration of 20–30 parts per billion by volume, with close to 100 p
Seasonal average vertical columns of tropospheric ozone in Dobson units over the period 1979 to 2000. In June to August, photochemical ozone production causes very high concentrations over the East Coast of the US and China.