Environmental pollution is a term that refers to all the ways by which people pollute their surroundings. People dirty the air with gases and smoke‚ poison the water with chemicals and other substances‚ and damage the soil with too many fertilizers and pesticides: People also pollute their surroundings in various other ways. For example‚ they ruin natural beauty by scattering junk and litter on the land and in the water. They operate machines and motor vehicles that fill the air with disturbing noise
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Community Issue: Pollution Do you hate seeing rubbish in the street? My topic is all about pollution. Pollution is a problem in Hawaii because it cause health problems‚ water gets polluted by throwing of chemicals in river and other bodies of water and land gets polluted because of too much wastes from industry. My first reason is because it can cause health problems. According to National Geographic‚ lung inflammation can develop when people are exposed to ongoing particulate air pollution some diseases
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Air Pollution Are you doing everything you can do to live a long and healthy life‚ eating healthy‚ exercising? Well that might not be enough‚ everyday the air you breathe can reduce life expectancy by 2 to 3 years; and an estimated total number of 6.3 million deaths caused by air pollution (Air Pollution kills). Air pollution has been going on for years and takes many forms‚ it is harming our environment and killing us slowly; in order to solve this problem the people of the world need to start
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Essay 1 Air Pollution: Causes and Effects It keeps us alive but at the same time‚ it can also be harmful. We breathe air everyday. Air provides us with oxygen that is essential for living. Nitrogen‚ water vapor‚ and inert gases comprise air along with oxygen. Emission of substances that contaminate air results to pollution. Causes Air pollution is both natural and human-based. Natural air pollution is caused by phenomenon such as volcanic eruption‚ wind erosion‚ decomposition and radioactive
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causes air pollution and why is it bad? Well‚ many things can cause air pollution‚ but most air pollution comes from motor vehicles like cars; burning wastes; industry and power plants; and heating buildings. Natural disasters‚ like forest fires and volcano eruptions‚ can cause air pollution‚ too. Whenever fossil fuels are burned‚ like when gasoline burns inside a car engine‚ pollutants like dust‚ soot‚ carbon dioxide‚ and sulfur oxide can fill up the surrounding air. Exposure to air pollution can bother
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Water pollution and pollution in general is a problem that people don’t like to deal with. Water pollution can cause so much damage to people and to the animals that live in that body of water. The laws that we have are doing what they need to but we need to monitor the water more closely because if we don’t catch the pollution when it happens it could cause a big disaster. It could kill all of the plant life that lives in the water and the animals that live there to. Some of the pollutions that
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20014 Air pollution effect on humans There’s nothing quite like opening the door and breathing fresh‚ clean‚ air—but how clean is the air you’re breathing right now? Unless you’re a scientist with a chemistry lab at your fingertips‚ there’s no real way of knowing. The gases you’re sucking up through your nose could be slowly killing you: according to the World Health Organization‚ around two million people die prematurely from the effects of polluted air every single year. Air pollution has both
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Introduction Pollution can be defined as "The act or process of polluting or the state of being polluted‚ especially the contamination of soil‚ water‚ or the atmosphere by the discharge of harmful substances." As we become more technologically advanced‚ we produce materials that can withstand extreme temperatures‚ are durable and easy to use. Plastic bags‚ synthetics‚ plastic bottles‚ tin cans‚ and computer hardware- these are some of the things that make life easy for us. But what we forget
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AIR POLLUTION [pic] Introduction The earth’s atmosphere‚ at or near sea level‚ consists approximately of 78 percent nitrogen‚ 21 percent oxygen and 1 percent other gases. If it were possible to remain in this state‚ 100 percent clean air would result. However‚ many varied sources allow other gases and particulates to mix with the clean air‚ causing our atmosphere to become unclean or polluted. Some of these pollutants are visible while others are invisible‚ with each
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HANOI—As Vietnam’s economy has boomed in recent decades‚ so too have pollution levels in its major cities‚ with experts concerned that air pollution could pose a major public health concern. "Environmental pollution in Vietnam is a real problem‚" said Tuong Lai‚ former dean of Vietnam’s Social Science Institute. "It’s not just foreign visitors who have complained about our dust pollution—people in our country are also very dissatisfied with it‚" he said. A study conducted by employment consultants
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