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Bookmark or Share- Household air pollution - World Health Organization (WHO)Key facts. Around 2.3 billion people worldwide (around a third of the global population) cook using open fires or inefficient stoves fuelled by kerosene, biomass (wood, animal dung and crop waste) and coal, which generates harmful household air pollution.
- Pollution | Definition, History, Types, & Facts | Britannicapollution, the addition of any substance ( solid, liquid, or gas) or any form of energy (such as heat, sound, or radioactivity) to the environment at a rate faster than it can be dispersed, diluted, decomposed, recycled, or stored in some harmless form.
- Pollution - WikipediaPollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change. [1] Pollution can take the form of any substance (solid, liquid, or gas) or energy (such as radioactivity, heat, sound, or light). Pollutants, the components of pollution, can be either foreign substances/energies or naturally occurring ...
- Pollution Definition & Meaning - Merriam-WebsterThe meaning of POLLUTION is the action of polluting; especially : the action of making an environment unsuitable or unsafe for use by introducing man-made waste. How to use pollution in a sentence.
- Pollution - National Geographic SocietyPollution is the introduction of harmful materials into the environment. These harmful materials are called pollutants. Pollutants can be natural, such as volcanic ash. They can also be created by human activity, such as trash or runoff produced by factories. Pollutants damage the quality of air, water, and land.
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