Impacts of Ambient Atmospheric Pollution and Their Challenges to Survival

Jacob Joshua^1, and Sujatha C.H¹

¹Department of Chemical Oceanography, School of Marine Sciences, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kerala, India

Cite this paper:
Jacob Joshua and Sujatha C.H. Impacts of Ambient Atmospheric Pollution and Their Challenges to Survival. Applied Ecology and Environmental Sciences. 2019; 7(6):216-223. doi: 10.12691/aees-7-6-2

Abstract

Owing to the National Integration, rapid industrialization and economic development, majority of the cities are transformed into mega or metropolises, and changed their life style to a great extent. This meticulous inclination has thrown a number of hazardous waste materials in the form of smoke, haze into the atmospheric platform with the composites of particulate matter and trace gases. The detriments are derived from sources like fossil fuel combustion, motor vehicular transportations, house hold activities and reclamation of agricultural land activities. World Health Organization, reports one in eight of global deaths accounts for the Air Pollution menace and attributes to reach the trend nearly ten million all over the world. Interim targets are prescribed globally by the Air Quality Guidelines to maintain a healthy atmosphere; hence policies should be planned in a judicial approach through Air quality Index, the yard stick for pollution assessment for sustaining cleaner energy.

Keywords:
Air Quality Index Particulate Matter pollution trace gases

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