Pollution

In a study. the pollution rates of heavy metal in topsoil (rage of 0-20 or 0-15cm) of farmland throughout China are collected from studies of publishes papers from the years 2005 to 2014. The relevancy of these papers were described in the study done by Zhang. In total, 612 data records of heavy metal pollution rates in 456 peer-reviewed articles were collected. The result was Cd was ranked as the highest pollution heavy metal that consisted of the ratio of 7.75% Hg, Cu, Ni, and Zn. In total,…

INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION STUDIES Pollution is the process of making the environment dirty, unsafe, or unsuitable to use. Worldwide pollution affects more than 200 million people. The two countries responsible for creating almost half of the planet’s carbon dioxide emissions is China and the United States (“Gallucci and Horn”). However, Americans are 5% of the world’s population and use 25% of the world’s resources. American’s burn up nearly 25% of coal, 26% of oil, and 27% of…

THE DIMENSIONS OF POLLUTIONS AND RESOURCES DEPLETION. ABSTRACT In this topic we will look at the dimensions of pollution and resources depletion. For pollution we will get to know the definition of pollution. Rather than that, we will know each types of pollution and each definition of this. Then we will look further into the cause, effect and solution for each pollution in this topic. Lastly we will discuss about the resources depletion effect occur by human activity. INTRODUCTION Environmental…

Chinese Air and Water Pollution Crisis Throughout the past few centuries, air and water pollution have been known to be the hazardous byproducts of industrialization. During the early stages of the industrial revolution, both Europe and America experienced episodes of severe health and environmental issues. Ever since then, there have been many legal actions taken to significantly reduce the amount of air pollutant each country produces. However, some countries such as China and India do not…

Air pollution is the contamination of the atmosphere by harmful biological or chemicals. Pollution causes serious harm to the environment and it is attributed that it is among the reasons why we have global warming. With harmful gases being emitted in the atmosphere there is dire need on how we can minimize the effects that causes air pollution, although some are inevitable there is need to put countermeasures in helping regulating harmful gases from being emitted to the atmosphere. Some of the…

Air Pollution as a Tragedy of Commons Zachary Preston EVSP414 October 22, 2017 Air Pollution as a Tragedy of Commons The Tragedy of the Commons can be described as the depletion of shared resources by people acting rationally and independently, according to their self-interest despite being aware that abusing the common resource contrary to their long-term best interests. The Tragedy serves as a model of a myriad of current resource-based problems affecting the society. It applies to the…

people and environment. Water Pollution affects drinking water which we need to survive. It also affects rivers, lakes, and ocean where sea creatures live. Water Pollution is one of the major problems in our environment. It has been suggested as the leading cause of death and diseases. Water Pollution is the contamination of water with chemicals and different substance that may affect plants, humans or animal health. There are different kinds of water pollution if the pollution comes from a…

How to solve air pollution problem in Chiang Mai “Go green”, “Think green”, or “Save the world” are some of slogans that people know. Several years ago, the world faced many environmental issues. One of them is the problem of air pollution. This aspect is a very dangerous problem in our world today. Some people think that air pollution is not harming the earth or the people. This is why it has become a very dangerous problem in Chiang Mai today. According to CityNews, Particulate matter…

Solution to Pollution One of the biggest issues we have with our environment in the United States is the agricultural pollution that effects America’s waterways. To help try to solve this problem, The Federal Water Pollution Control Act was rewritten in 1972 by Congress, and is now known as “The Clean Water Act”. The real questions are what is the exact purpose of the Clean Water Act? What are the effects of the Act? How effective is it? What is the main cause of the water pollution? The Clean…

communities and marine life, and also causing water-borne disease to human’s life, water pollution also might leads to Eutrophication. Eutrophication is an over-enrichment of water with nutrients, usually nitrogen or phosphorus (“Water Pollution”). There are a lot causes of Eutrophication and changes in acidity of water but the main thing that leads to the occurrence of the Eutrophication is silt and chemical pollution. This occur when all fertilizers, herbicides, and insecticides being dump…