Monday, 22 June 2015

Saturday, 20 June 2015

When You Breathe (Lung)

When You Breathe (Lung) It's amazing how the lungs take in oxygen to be carried all over your body. You might even say it's breathtaking! Lyrics When you breathe in you take oxygen From the air, and into your lungs And then they spread it to all the rest of you From your toes to...

Thursday, 18 June 2015

High pollution hits southern England

10 April 2015, UK Parts of England have experienced very high levels of air pollution, following health warnings for vulnerable people. Warm, still conditions combined with traffic fumes, pollution from Europe and Saharan dust from the south saw very high levels affect six regions. Eastern...

Sources of Air Pollution

Over industrialization and globalization, the economic growth has been evolving with pollution since a few decades ago. Majority of human now are exposed to the advance technologies and luxury of life. However, these scenarios do not indicate that life nowadays is much better than the olden days. These...

Wednesday, 17 June 2015

Air Monitoring in Malaysia

The Malaysian Meteorological Service Air Pollution Monitoring Network comprises a total of 22 stations well distributed over Peninsular Malaysia and East Malaysia. This network was started in 1976 with only two stations, but gradually over the years more stations were added. At the same time, as the...

Trends of PM10 and O3 in Malaysia of 2013

According to Malaysia Environmental Quality Report in 2013, Five (5) air pollutants consisting of particulate matter (PM10), ozone (O3), sulphur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and carbon monoxide (CO) were monitored continuously at 52 locations. The air quality trend for the period of 1999 to...

Sources of Air Pollution: Ground Transportation

A number of factors can be identified as influencing the amount of emissions attributable to the transport sector, and an effective strategy will need to take all these factors into account. They include:  (a) the amount that vehicles are used in a given country or metropolitan area, including...

Haze Pollution in Malaysia and South East Asia

Smoke from land clearing fires in Indonesia causes hazardous haze pollution in South East Asia every year. Record high levels of air pollution caused by haze were reached in June 2013 in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. In response to regional pressure after the latest haze crisis, Indonesia has...

Tuesday, 16 June 2015

INDOOR AIR POLLUTION

INDOOR AIR POLLUTION What is Indoor Air Pollution? We usually think of air pollution as being outdoors, but actually we are more exposed to indoor air pollution as every day we are spends most of our time at home or office. Indoor air pollution has been associated with health problem such as Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) which become common issue in Malaysia this recent years. The symptoms of SBS...

Friday, 22 May 2015

Monday, 6 April 2015

Introduction

Other planets have sunlight, but the Earth is the only planet we know that has air and water. A diverse community of plant and animal life has thrived on this planet for millions of years, sustained by the sun and supported by the soil, water and air. Air is a precious resource that most of us take for granted. Air supplies us with oxygen and supports our respiratory system which is essential...