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    Air Pollution

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    Air pollution has been an ongoing issue for decades. With a vast amount of causes, such as: burning fossil fuel, manufacturing, and wildfires; it is hard to completely eliminate air pollution, but something can be done to lessen the severity of air pollution. Long exposure to poor air quality leaves the human respiratory system at risk. Air pollution can affect those with asthma, especially children. Researchers did a test to see whether air pollution caused by vehicles was a factor that affected

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    heard of pollution, but what some don’t know is that there are many types of pollution. Pollution can have different consequences depending on what kind there is. In the world so far there are only nine types of pollution that have been recognized. Although this can be negative to the world it’s also affecting the health of people as well. In order to understand what pollution can do to you and the world you need to know the types that are causing the harm. The first type is air pollution. This type

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    Environmental Pollution

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    The world faces many issues, but the most important which will affect people living on this planet is that it is slowly deteriorating. Pollution, excessive greenhouse gases, and the ozone layer depletion are causing the environment to slowly degrade and cause chronic and fatal health issues such as cancer. One of the main ways to help the environment be a better place is by having businesses be more environmentally friendly. Businesses don’t have to put a lot of effort in helping the environment

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    Pesticide Pollution

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    Fertilizer and pesticide usage has increased dramatically worldwide, especially in China. Twenty years of uncontrolled economic development have created serious, chronic air and water pollution. In order to support China’s growing population, the country has drastically increased its usage of fertilizers and pesticides in the agricultural sector. China consumes around a third of global fertilizers, with rapid growth in use in recent years, driven largely by higher fruit and vegetable production.

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    Speech On Pollution

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    Pollution should be banned from society and our planet. This may be a topic that is discussed all the time, but we need to “wake up” and make changes now. Some of our world’s most pollutants places have damaging effects, such as birth defects, the loss of thirty to forty IQ points, and life expectancy may be as low as forty-five years because of cancer and other diseases. This is enough reason alone to continue to address the problem of pollution. Pollution is when the air, water, land, and environment

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    Fresh Water Pollution WILLIAM WRIGHT GRANTHAM UNIVERSITY In this paper I will discuss one of the world’s problems which is the pollution of the Fresh Water Systems in the United States. I will show how the pollution of fresh water affects land, air and plant life to include humanity. When water is polluted it can affect all living things. Some of the human activities that can be affected is the drinking water, without fresh drinking water humans would not be able to survive

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    Soil Pollution

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    life. In urban cities, gas stations are found in just about every other corner. It has already been documented that burning gasoline produces toxic fumes that contributes to air pollution, global warming, and many health concerns. Soil surrounding a gas station can also be contaminated with gasoline and generate soil pollution. In comparison with air, soil is more complex in composition and function. It functions as a sink for pollutants, as a filter which delays the passage of chemicals to groundwater

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    Earth Pollution

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    I'm going to start off my essay by talking about "earth pollution". There are seven different types of earth pollution. Starting of with water pollution and air pollution, I think these would be the most common and prevalent forms of earth pollution. Water and air are both extremely important to the enviroment. The rest is, soil pollution, thermal pollution, radioactive pollution, noise pollution and light pollution. There is also air pollution that works in a green house infect. Which can warm up

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    Pollution is a major problem in water systems all around the world and in our creek. In our area, eutrophication and acid rain are the two main pollution problems in our area. Eutrophication can be caused by sewage treatment plants, home sewage systems, and farm fertilizer runoff. Acid rain can be caused by the burning of fossil fuel. Eutrophication causes plants to die and when the plants die, the bacteria from the dead plants use up the oxygen from the water, which causes the fish to die. Photo

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    Water, Radioactive, Air, Soil, Light- pollution Water pollution involves the containination of varies water bodies.Many aquatic cretures rely on these water bodies and it natural features to depend upon life. Industrial waste is dumped into these waterbododies , which then causes a chemical imbalance in the water , which than goes into death of the aquatic.Certain natural disaster like flash flood and hurricanes cause the intermixing of water with harmful substances on the land.Their are

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