Pollution

There exists a pattern of historically disenfranchised groups in the United States, such as minorities and low-income communities, being exposed to a disproportionate level of environmental hazards such as toxic waste, pollution and urban decay. This relationship between social and environmental aspects has been termed environmental racism, and beginning in the mid to late 20th century the Environmental Justice Movement grew to combat the politically normalized existence of environmental racism…

Unfortunately, New Jersey waterways, specifically the ones in northern New Jersey, have been plagued with an abundance of plastic. This is a major problem that needs to be fixed is the contaminated waterways because they cause problems. The plastic pollution in the waterways of New Jersey is a big environmental problem. According to the New York Times, “At any given time, an estimated 165 million plastic particles are floating...along the Hudson River, south to Sandy Hook Bay, in New Jersey”…

Imagine acres of beautiful land, stretching as far as the eye can see providing food and shelter for animals and wildlife. Then, a few years later, the land has become destroyed. It now holds housing developments, roads, office parks, strip malls, parking lots and industrial sites. The lively animals that roamed this land only years earlier, now nowhere in sight. It is nearly unimaginable that the animals you once saw in this very location could have ever lived here. Biodiversity is the variety…

Shrimp aquaculture is considered to be one of the most environmentally destructive forms of modern agriculture affecting mangroves directly [83]. Aquaculture destroys the mangroves to create shrimp ponds, reduce the ground water levels, and cause pollution to the surface water from the pond effluents [100]. Lack of long-term conservation and management of natural resources are the greatest shortcoming of shrimp aquaculture [40]. Researchers have noticed that the world’s mangroves will disappear…

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…

Residents of West Anniston refused to accept continual denials from Monsanto as to the potential health effects of PCBs which incidentally are still stated on their website today: “the health effects of PCBs have been extensively studied. Published studies have shown no consistent excesses in cancer.” (Monsanto) This claim flies directly in the face of EPA findings which state that PCBs are probable human carcinogens and these conclusions are supported by 15 peer reviews by experts on PCBs.…

In the Chesapeake Bay, water is brown but its sediment brown. The water just looks kind of muddy. In our time boating on the Chesapeake, we’ve noticed the stains it leaves on our boat how the water looks kind of dirty. I know of the pollution in the bay and how a great deal of it is from agricultural runoff, so I worry about the brown. When we passed out of the Bay and through the waters of the Elizabeth River near Portsmouth, Virginia, the siltyness dropped out of the water and it seemed…

At the surface, “Wall-E” is an enjoyable movie about a lonely robot, whose main task is to collect garbage on Earth. Beneath the surface, the movie is so much more, Wall-E is needed to save the planet from permanent destruction, while becoming smitten with EVE. When the audience first meets Wall-E, he is alone on Earth with nothing but a pet cockroach. Even though the planet is deemed as uninhabitable for humans, Wall-E must continue to follow his directive of cleaning the garbage off the planet…

the rivers and 46% of the lakes are polluted. These bodies of water are considered unhealthy for swimming, fishing or aquatic life (Rinkesh). A person may wonder why, and question what the causes could be. One of the major reasons for this type of pollution is dog feces being discarded improperly. Over forty-two and a half million homes in the United States own one or more dogs. This account for more than seventy-three million dogs in this country alone (Coren). As a person can see, there is a…

in the last 150 years”. This data is suggesting that pristine wilderness has been missing from planet earth for many decades. These results also explain that humans have altered every corner of the earth; not just with air pollution but with land pollution and water pollution as well. Marris shows her understanding of this problem when she claims that “we’ve been changing the landscapes we inhabit for millennia, and these days our reach is truly global” (Marris…