New Map Offers a Global View of Health-Sapping Air Pollution [Article]
Type: ArticleAuthor/Source:Science Daily, September 24, 2010.
How much of a health toll on humanity do particles that are a fraction of the size of human hair take? This fine particulate matter, which includes natural material such as dust and human-created pollution particles, is small enough to evade the human body’s natural defenses and wind up deep in our lungs. And mapping these particles globally is particularly difficult. ScienceDaily looks at the first long-term study that uses satellites and computer models to map air pollution levels around the planet, the first step in an effort to learn the effects of pollution on disease and mortality rates around the globe. View which areas of the planet suffer most from these particles, and learn the next steps that NASA plans to take using this data.
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