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Useful sites | Local air pollution begins at home

CSIRO Atmospheric Research (Australia)

• Urban and regional air pollution
  Covers the kinds of pollutants that affect air quality.
  http://www.dar.csiro.au/information/urbanpollution.html

• Tracking acidification in Australia and Asia
  Shows that atmospheric pollutants can affect the acidity of rainwater.
  http://www.cmar.csiro.au/e-print/open/info98_1.html

Motor vehicle emissions (Environment Protection Authority Victoria, Australia)

Describes the pollutants from motor vehicles and ways to improve vehicle emissions.
http://www.epa.vic.gov.au/air/vehicles/default.asp

Outdoor air pollution and lung disease (Australian Lung Foundation)

Information about what air pollution is and how it can harm people.
http://www.lungnet.com.au/content/view/92/146/

Australian Government Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts

• Lead alert facts: Lead and your health
  Outlines the effects of lead on human health.
  http://www.environment.gov.au/atmosphere/airquality/publications/health.html

• Air pollutants
  Provides information on different groups of air pollutants with links to specific air pollutant fact sheets.
  http://www.environment.gov.au/atmosphere/airquality/pollutants.html

• Breathe the benefits
  Explains how to reduce woodsmoke.
  http://www.environment.gov.au/atmosphere/airquality/publications/breathe-the-benefits.html

• Air quality factsheet – air toxics
  Defines air toxics, how they affect human health and what is being done to manage air toxics in Australia. Links to factsheets on carbon monoxide, lead, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, particles, sulfur dioxide; smoke from biomass burning, woodheaters and woodsmoke are also available
  http://www.environment.gov.au/atmosphere/airquality/publications/airtoxics.html

Total Environment Centre (Australia)

• Working together to clear the air – A report on chemicals in the home, including a section on indoor air pollution.
  http://www.tec.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=395&Itemid=293

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

• Clearer Asian skies may worsen drought (News in Science, 13 December 2006)
  More of Australia could become affected by drought if its nearest neighbours start reducing air pollution, a study suggests.
  http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2006/1809721.htm?enviro

• South in hot water over cleaner air (News in Science, 30 October 2006)
  Reports that a projected drop in air pollution will affect global ocean currents and could cause a marked rise in water temperature in the southern hemisphere.
  http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2006/1776736.htm?enviro

• Air pollution – the hidden health hazard (Health Matters, 4 May 2006)
  Looks at the health affects of fine particles in pollution from vehicles.
  http://www.abc.net.au/health/thepulse/s1630462.htm

• Incineration nation – burn or bust? (Radio National, 14 January 2006)
  Covers efforts in Japan to increase recycling and the problems of incinerators causing air pollution.
  http://www.abc.net.au/rn/features/worldwaste/japan.htm#

Using pot plants to clean indoor air (Technical Nursery Papers, Nursery and Garden Industry Australia)

Describes research indicating that plants can take up volatile organic compounds and clean indoor air.
http://www.ngia.com.au/Story?Action=View&Story_id=1207