Category: Effects of Pollution

Listen To Article Since as early as 1952 when the great London Fog killed 4000 people, nature has tried to warn the man about how harmful air pollution can be. In big cities especially in developing countries, it is commonplace to see thick sheets of dense smog during certain times of the year. While there […]

Listen To Article Developing nations across the globe have recently come face to face with a sinister monster that has been birthed by the industrialization drives that have been underway for decades now. This rather scary fallout of industrial progress is air pollution. In India, air pollution has slowly crept up to the 5th  position […]

Listen To Article Smoke, smog, adulterated air etc. have become terms commonly used today. Reason? Pollution! And I need not mention how and why has the pollution increased tremendously since the past few years. And there seems to be no stopping to it. Side-Effects of Pollution The air pollution has increased as much as to […]

We do not own the earth instead we share it with others, so whatever damage we cause to the earth we have to face the consequences. The harshest manner in which we damage the environment is by polluting the air we breathe and the water we drink and once the damage has been done the […]

Pollution is defined as the introduction of a harmful or poisonous substance into the environment. Of all the various types of pollution, air pollution is turning out to be the most detrimental to health in the recent times. Not only the metropolitan cities but the small towns are also grappling with the issue of air […]

The air that we inhale nowadays is totally polluted and has a lot of pollutants like exhaust particles, nitrogen oxide, particulate matter etc. All this goes in to our lungs and leads to harmful effects by attacking our immune system and cells. Free radicals are produced and they lead to inflammation being caused. In places […]