Annotated Bibliography "Air Pollution." GEG Project RSS2. GEG Project‚ n.d. Web. 29 Nov. 2012. This informative web article details the process of air pollution. In defining air pollution—when specific compounds in the atmosphere reach a point to which they cause change in the environment—it is observed that large quantities of these pollutants can be harmful. Natural processes such as volcanic eruptions decay of organic matter‚ and wildfires generate small amounts of air pollution. Humans‚ however‚
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term pollution means the discharge of a toxic or contaminating substance that is likely to have an adverse effect on the natural environment or life. Pollution is a very serious problem‚ making life more difficult for not just humans‚ but even plants and animals. There are many types of pollution such as air pollution‚ water pollution‚ and soil contamination. First let’s begin by talking about air pollution and how it affects us. Air is 99.9% nitrogen‚ oxygen‚ water vapor and insert gases. Air pollution
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Water Pollution in Bangladesh INTRODUCTION Water is the most vital element among the natural resources‚ and is crucial for the survival of all living organisms. The environment‚ economic growth and development of Bangladesh are all highly influenced by water - its regional and seasonal availability‚ and the quality of surface and groundwater. Spatial and seasonal availability of surface and groundwater is highly responsive to the monsoon climate and physiography of the country. Availability also
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CHEMICAL POLLUTANTS AND THE ENVIRONMENT The effects of land pollution are far-ranging in the industrial age. The nature of the industrial revolution and the lack of a sustainable development model for industrial progress have allowed the creation of chemicals and products which may serve the idea of convenience or productivity or efficiency‚ however‚ the concept of environmental stewardship is largely an afterthought. This has led to long-lasting chemicals which persist in the environment and are
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HARM THE ENVIRONMENT OF AIR POLLUTION 1. Harm to human health and animal life on earth: Air pollution on the human body and animals primarily via the respiratory tract as well as direct effects on the eyes and skin of the body. They cause diseases such as suffocation‚ acute pulmonary edema‚ a number of irritating contaminants for coughs‚ asthma‚ tuberculosis‚ lung cancer‚ causing bitter tears‚ cause allergies‚ itching on skin‚ urticaria‚ stone dust and asbestos dust causes lung .
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Hanoi‚ Vietnam is Facing the Threats from Water Pollution With the rapid growth of industrialization in urban cities‚ the water around them is getting more and more polluted. One time I casually crossed by To Lich River‚ one of the big rivers in the capital Hanoi‚ behind the industrial zone. The river water there was polluted seriously and smelt really fetid. A lot of small fishes and other sea creatures were dead and floating on the surface of the river. I was thinking about how people could
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Water Pollution When you think of problems in the world today‚ water pollution isn’t one that would normally come up. In fact it is one of the worst problems in the world today. Water pollution‚ by definition‚ is the contamination of streams‚ lakes‚ underground water‚ bays‚ or oceans by any substances harmful to living things. All living things contain it‚ live in it‚ and most need it to survive‚ so water pollution is a big problem‚ if not the biggest. If severe‚ the pollution can kill off
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Fresh Water Pollution In the most common usage pollution refers to contamination of water by chemical‚ biological‚ or other harmful substances. Some water pollution laws view the concept much more broadly; the United States Clean Water Act defines pollution as the man made or man induced alteration of chemical‚ physical‚ biological integrity of the nation’s water (Adler‚ n.d.). Common law approaches were created through gradual accumulation of judicial decision in individual cases which set
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Air and Water Pollution: The Gulf Oil Spill Stephanie Wolf University of Phoenix ENV/100 Principles of Environmental Science Cyraj El-Bakoush On April 20‚ 2010‚ BP’s oil rig Deepwater Horizon blew up in the Gulf of Mexico‚ killing 11 people and unleashing more than 200 million gallons of oil into the water (Sakashita‚ N.D.). The spill oiled more than 1‚000 miles of shoreline and a study from the Center for Biological
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Title : AIR POLUTION Air Pollution is anything that goes into the air that is harmful. Most air pollution is manmade. The largest contributor to air pollution is the burning of fossil fuels such as gas and coal. Air pollution can also be said is the accumulation in the atmosphere of substances that‚ in sufficient concentrations‚ endanger human health or produce other measured effects on living matter and other materials. Among the major sources of air pollution are power and heat generation
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