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AIRNow

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Air. We all breathe it, every minute of every day. But in addition to the oxygen your body needs what else are you pulling into your lungs everyday? The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Parks Service, tribal, state, and local agencies have developed the AIRNow Web site to provide the public with easy access to national air quality information. From this website you can check out what is in the air you are breathing right now! You can also get the latest information on the ozone layer, UV radiation and much more.

PROCEDURES

  1. Use your WWW browser to access the site whose URL is:
    http://cfpub.epa.gov/airnow/index.cfm?action=airnow.main
  2. Explore the site. Use the bookmark capabilities of your browser to save the site location for future use.
  3. Use the exit command to quit your WWW browser.

This lesson is part of the series "DO-IT Lessons" developed by the University of Washington. Creation of the series of lessons is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant numbers 9255803 and 9550003. The lessons are now maintained through funds from the State of Washington. The University of Washington holds the copyright to the series of lessons, however ownership of the Internet resources referenced in the lessons may be found at the resource site. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed at these sites are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation, the University of Washington or the State of Washington.

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