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Jun 11, 2020 · It is also in the air we breathe, traveling on the wind and drifting down from the skies, according to a new study. More than 1,000 tons of tiny fragments rain down each year on national...
Sep 28, 2020 · It’s in the air we breathe: Microplastic in the atmosphere prompts new study at LSU. Tiny particles of plastic are showing up in unlikely places, which has prompted potentially groundbreaking...
Apr 26, 2018 · The majority of the air we breathe is made up of nitrogen and oxygen, though you'll also find argon, carbon dioxide and other gases in trace amounts.
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Oct 2, 2019 · The life-sustaining air we breathe envelops our planet like a pale-blue security blanket, clinging to us by the force of gravity. We see birds, planes, an ever-changing patchwork of clouds and, in some places, air pollution.
Sep 1, 2020 · Oxygen makes up about 21% of the air we breathe. There is a perfect amount of oxygen in the atmosphere: enough for our lungs to absorb into our blood, but not enough to damage our tissues. The trillions of cells in our bodies use oxygen to break down molecules absorbed from the food we eat.
Jun 8, 2020 · How Science is Protecting the Air We Breathe. Published June 8, 2020. Smog in Los Angeles, California. EPA has been at the forefront of providing the science to protect the air we breathe since 1970, when the Agency was established. Fifty years ago, air pollution (smog) was a visible problem.
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What's in the Air? Three-fourths of all air resides in the troposphere, the lowest layer of the Earth’s atmosphere. Air is a mixture of gases, most of which are naturally occurring. Air also contains a significant amount of human-made air pollutants, including some that are not safe to breathe and some that warm our planet’s climate.
