Environment Issues in Europe
Environment issues in Europe
Air pollution, acid rain, and the disaster at Chernobyl have weakened or almost destroyed the natural environment in Europe. All of these have caused major concern and actions in Europe. People being scared if they go outside they might die. All this because of pollution; pollution is powerful and very dangerous.
Air pollution is one of the environmental hardships Europe has to face. Air pollution is caused by power plants, and traffic; pumping fossil fuel into the air. Then it mixes with the air and causes smog. Smog can causes major health problems such as asthma and pneumonia, kill plant life and a lot more. Most of the largest and most industrialized counties are in Europe. Paris, London, Berlin, Rome, and Amsterdam have a lot of air pollution. The country with the most air pollution is the U.K.
Acid rain is made from air pollution. The air the pollution mixes with condenses and turns into clouds. Then it rains all that pollution down. This causes health problems (cancer), harms plant life, aquatic animals, and weathering of buildings, statues, and also sculptures. The country with the worst acid rain is Germany. It has the worst because it depends on manufacturing (the factories make smoke from fossil fuel which causes air pollution), and it has more people driving than most countries. Chernobyl was a nuclear power plant that exploded and exposed one tenth of Ukraine’s 233,090 square feet, approximately one million of its people to unsafe levels of radiation. Drinking water was unsafe for months after the accident, and fish in the rivers of the Ukraine and neighboring countries were not safe to eat for years. Nearby pine forests turned brown and died. Many animals died or suffered thyroid damage. A thirty-mile area around the power station was abandoned by humans and became known as the “exclusion zone.” The faulty reactor was quickly buried in concrete, but this structure requires major work and the radioactive material is
Air pollution, acid rain, and the disaster at Chernobyl have weakened or almost destroyed the natural environment in Europe. All of these have caused major concern and actions in Europe. People being scared if they go outside they might die. All this because of pollution; pollution is powerful and very dangerous.
Air pollution is one of the environmental hardships Europe has to face. Air pollution is caused by power plants, and traffic; pumping fossil fuel into the air. Then it mixes with the air and causes smog. Smog can causes major health problems such as asthma and pneumonia, kill plant life and a lot more. Most of the largest and most industrialized counties are in Europe. Paris, London, Berlin, Rome, and Amsterdam have a lot of air pollution. The country with the most air pollution is the U.K.
Acid rain is made from air pollution. The air the pollution mixes with condenses and turns into clouds. Then it rains all that pollution down. This causes health problems (cancer), harms plant life, aquatic animals, and weathering of buildings, statues, and also sculptures. The country with the worst acid rain is Germany. It has the worst because it depends on manufacturing (the factories make smoke from fossil fuel which causes air pollution), and it has more people driving than most countries. Chernobyl was a nuclear power plant that exploded and exposed one tenth of Ukraine’s 233,090 square feet, approximately one million of its people to unsafe levels of radiation. Drinking water was unsafe for months after the accident, and fish in the rivers of the Ukraine and neighboring countries were not safe to eat for years. Nearby pine forests turned brown and died. Many animals died or suffered thyroid damage. A thirty-mile area around the power station was abandoned by humans and became known as the “exclusion zone.” The faulty reactor was quickly buried in concrete, but this structure requires major work and the radioactive material is