Pollution

From plastic cups to the carbon dioxide coming from your car, the waste that is produced on land ends up reaching the oceans. Marine pollution is defined by the Group of Experts on Scientific Aspects of Marine Pollution (GESAMP) as: “the introduction by man, directly or indirectly, of substances or energy into the marine environment resulting in such deleterious effects as harm to living resources, hazards to human health, hindrance to marine activities including fishing, impairment of quality…

as fertility and utility, is called soil pollution. Various factors, are considered to be responsible for soil pollution. According to scientists, soil pollution is identified as the damages done to the top soil of the land. Soil pollution is synonymous with the problem of disposal of solid waste. From a large perspective, it includes changes in the soil's basic properties as a result of and human and natural processes – soil degradation, chemical pollution from various sources, geological…

Pollution in the United States is on the verge of the extreme and this is caused by Exhaust gases from cars, which shifts the climate change and with high excesses of air pollution, can cause health problems down the road. Recently in the news, Volkswagen has made the news for cheating their emission test for their diesel line. Why do we care? The United States of America has set regulations on how much a car exhaust can pollute, with this being said; each car company has to make the…

Erie earned the name “North America's dead sea” ( MICHAEL WINES) Climate change is a big problem with algae. The more wet and warm days you have the more algae you have. Runoff pollution is one cause that needs to be solved for helping Lake Erie. Runoff pollution is pollution that runs of fields when it rains,That pollution ends up in our streams and rivers that eventually end up in lake erie Our water is not the only thing in danger so are all of our fish and living things in Lake…

to brown clouds and toxic rain? But here it is over a 100 years later and the world literally has made a mess of things, especially the air. Of course cars are not the only contributor, but energy in general is a main source of our planet 's air pollution problem. All world citizens should be aware of this sometimes visible but sometimes invisible hazard in the air that all humans are forced to breathe to some degree. Lucky are those who live away from the cities, as the problem is not as…

In the video pollution solution number 2570, Bill Nye helps us try to understand pollution of the earth in the form of toxic wastes, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and noise. He states that the earth is an ecosystem and demonstrates how human beings, industries, and other facilities pollute the earth which is a closed ecosystem. He further states that most of pollution comes from human beings but not big factories and power plants that everyone thinks. This takes place in the form of small…

B. We were raising awareness for soil pollution throughout the world. Soil pollution is the contamination of soil with harmful substances that can adversely the health or the soil and the health of those living on it. C. Industrial activity has been the biggest contributor of soil pollution. Since the amount of mining and manufacturing have significantly increased, most industries are dependant on extracting minerals from the Earth. This is industrial activity. Whether it is iron ore or coal,…

Ocean pollution, also known as marine pollution, is the spreading of harmful substances such as oil, plastic, industrial and agricultural waste and chemical particles into the ocean. Most of the sources of the marine pollution are land base activities. Marine pollution has numerous effects on marine animals, plants and human. Therefore, it is important to understand the cause and effect of the ocean pollution, and what people can do to solve this problem. The source of marine pollution is…

the town feel any safer than before when they had a theory of their home river being polluted for example one of the few precautions they took was to put up signs saying things like “no fishing.” None of these things moved the company causing the pollution out of the state or just completely shut it down because it wasn’t certain that there were pollutants actually inhabiting the river so there was nothing they could have done in order to further please the people of east Harris County. The…

Water pollution is a global threat to the environment, ecosystems and the well-being of humans. Pollution is the introduction of any unnatural substances into the natural environment such as pesticides, plastics, and oil spills. Although Canada has made significant improvements, there are still water pollution issues that need to be solved and addressed. Pesticides are one of the many pollutants that enter water bodies that impose a threat to humans and ecosystems. The toxicants from…