Pollution

human activities have affected these oceans in a very disastrous manner. Marine pollution also known as Ocean pollution, is the introduction of harmful substances such as waste from industries, effluents, sewage, oil , agricultural waste etc into the ocean (Derraik,2002). The oceans are a known home to a large variety of flora and fauna. The pollution has started affecting the marine habitat adversely. Marine pollution not only affects the seas and oceans but the whole earth (Islam and Tanaku,…

Pollution is the presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effect. Pollution is, in my mind, the biggest environmental problem. We think pollution is minor and that we have people on the job to fix it, but really we don't. The water and the air is polluted so much that we didn't even recognize it as a problem but as just something that is in our environment and that it's just gonna be there. We need to do something to lessen the amount…

Water pollution is when our water steams, and rivers get polluted by harmful things. Water pollution in Georgia today is a very disastrous issue. The problem with water pollution is contamination from chemical spills, burst pipelines and toxic waste. Water pollution is a major issue to be dealt with. There are many ways water pollution can be avoided. In addition to finding a solution to this problem, The Clean Water Act was made and passed. Even though Water pollution very harmful, People have…

in the ocean. Ocean pollution is a serious matter that people can get into a discussion, but when they go to bed at night not a lot of people are thinking about how much ocean pollution affects not only endangered species that live in the ocean but us as well. Most people don’t believe that they contribute to ocean pollution. They think it’s the big industries that create plastic and aluminum products, but 80% of the pollution in the water are from nonpoint source pollution as a result of…

I am writing to you because of the air pollution problem we have in Utah. Air pollution affects health issues, especially in older, people, babies and people with lung disease. Lung disease is a huge problem because of how polluted the air is in Utah. In fact, we are the 7th most air polluted city in the nation. Two main reasons why Utah air is so bad because of business and vehicle. Our trucks and cars are a major contributor to the air pollution because it is creating more carbon dioxide and…

water eventually drains into the same streams and rivers.”Watersheds affect water quality, the Earth picks up water pollution and gets rid of the pollution in the water streams and rivers as it drains the watershed. Watershed is also known as “drainage”. Everyone is standing in a watershed right now. Smaller watersheds have larger ones and larger watersheds have smaller ones. Pollution is having an impact on our watersheds. How to help…

Air pollution is steadily increasing with the use of fossil fuels to power our vehicles and with the increase of urbanization of rural areas. Diesel exhaust particles, or titanium dioxide are a huge source of pollution due to the increase number of semis hauling freight across the country, and the increase of industrial buildings. Efforts certainly have been active in trying to solve this problem, however, it is steadily on the rise worldwide. Unfortunately, do to this increase; offspring of…

Plain view pollution  WHAT WAS THE DEAL? To retain a major corporation in Plainview City buy finding out what their grievances are, and figure out a better way to address it, without mortgaging the future of the community. Also, to address the issue regarding carbon pollution that has been plaguing the city, and causing the inhabitant to be sick as a result of their exposure to the toxic pollutant.  WHO COULD NOT MAKE A DEAL? Everyone including the EPA, the city council, the president, and…

people to our state. There are two big beautiful oceans that surround the state of Florida. There are also several lakes, rivers, springs and other bodies of water. Although, the biggest problem in Florida is the pollution going into Florida’s waterways; everyone has a role on the pollution. Homeowner’s are a part of the problem because they are trying to keep their lawns green and lush by using fertilizer and pesticides that eventually run into some type of body of water (Call and Stephenson).…

Many scientific evidence has stated that in some areas, indoor air pollution is much worse than outdoor air pollution, Due to the amount of time people nowadays spend indoors, people’s health risks increase due to the air pollution indoors. These are a few of the less known indoor air pollutants (“7 Sources of Indoor Air Pollution”): 1.New carpet. Carpet materials can emit a variety of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). 2. Broken compact fluorescent lights. If they break, CFLs can emit mercury,…