Genetic pollution

Although smoking rates have declined, cigarettes are the most littered item in the world today with over 4.5 trillion cigarettes littered worldwide each year making up almost 40% of litter (CigaretteLitter.org, 2015). Dropping cigarette butts and cigar tips to the ground, putting them in garden beds, and disposing of them in waterways is littering. The belief amongst some smokers that cigarettes are biodegradable is incorrect, most filters in cigarettes (CigaretteLitter.org, 2015) contain toxic…

Copper deficiency can cause health problems, lower production, and cost producers money. Signs and symptoms of copper deficiency are changes in hair coat color , diarrhea, decrease in weight gain, anemia,, lameness, decreased disease resistance. The specific signs depend on the cause of the deficiency, and this contributes to confusion in diagnosis. Copper deficiency lowers the immune system and can make cattle more susceptible to disease, as well as less responsive to vaccines. Copper is…

Overview of Environmental Allergies Environmental allergies are the allergies that live in our environments. If you have ever gone outside and immediately felt your allergies act up, then it is highly likely that you have one or more environmental allergies. The symptoms of environmental allergies are similar to normal allergies. These symptoms include: • Itchy and watery eyes • Clogged nose • Congestion • Sniffles • Coughing • Sneezing • Itching It is hard to avoid our environmental…

I love that feeling if you haven't felt it because you've been trapped in a car for a long time, grab your bike or just walk. It will make you feel great, it will help you exercise and you will be able to reduce air pollution. - I love meat, do you? The problem of loving beef, lambs, cows, and sheep is that they produce methane. Methane is one of the worst greenhouses gasses, which leads to global warming. Although leaving meat at all is very difficult, so, try to buy…

world continues to face environmental problems caused by human actions, this realization makes people desperate for solutions because they want to secure a future in this planet. One of the most discussed environmental problems is human-induced pollution, including the release of chemicals and pesticides into the water, and the excessive use of plastic products such as plastic bags. Lately, plastic bags have made headlines because they are responsible for the deaths of many marine animals who…

ocean as we can only see a tiny percent of it.Even though fighting pollution won’t be good for the economy , people should stop or reduce pollution as much as possible because it will destroy the fishing market and the ocean as a whole. One of the most noticeable forms of ocean pollution are oil spills.An oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment, due to human activity and is a form of pollution. Oil spills may be due to releases of crude oil from tankers,…

The United States produces 254 million lbs of trash every year*. 1.4 million lbs of litter get dumped into the ocean yearly which amounts to the conservative estimate of 300 million lbs of litter in the ocean total**. Despite all the advertising and general knowledge that litter is bad, we still throw some of our trash on the ground as we walk by because "the trash cans are too far away" or "it's just a wrapper." It's hard to understand that our seemingly small decisions have a huge…

first negative pollution was the smog created from burning coal in the 18th and 19th century. Just like air pollution, our water has been faced with a similar issue. Many companies have pipelines leading into the ocean and it being where all our rear excrements are sent off to. It is estimated that over 1 billion of the population does not access clean drinking water and every 15 seconds a child is killed from contaminated diseases. In the recent years, studies have shown beach pollution…

Littering By:Taeshaun Evans Littering is a terrible thing. Imagine all the things that gets littered everyday. That’s about the size of Mt. Everrest. People who litter should be ashamed. There are so many wildlife problems littering causes. I would like to take the time and tell you a few problems it causes. I will also tell you some possible answers to the problem. Why do people litter? No one really knows why people litter. Mainly people litter because they have different…

In some places of the world (at one point or another) had so much litter and pollution that when you walked outside it was constantly dark, so you wouldn’t know whether is was morning or evening! Together, we need to change the way that people think of littering (especially plastic and you will find out why). In fact, if people would simply just stop littering, our world would be remarkably different; it could potentially be so different you might no recognize it! Our ecosystem today is…