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Air Pollution "I'm going out for a breath of fresh air" seems to be a phrase we often hear throughout out lives. Unfortunately, in today's world, that "fresh air" isn't exactly fresh. As a result of increasing traffic, city size, economic development, and indu...
Air Pollution in Ontario Air pollution is a major topic in our society it is a subject to be taken seriously because it causes many problems in our environment causing it to be very unhealthy for our living lifestyle. Air pollution is described as the accumulation of something where it is no...
For many years now, scientists have researched and test the affects of air pollution. It has already been proven that pollution and the chemical substances affect a person's health and well being. There are a lot of things pollute the air, including ourselves and what we do. Pollution is basi...
We have produced various excretions and wastes as a result of a production activity or consumption activities. ¡¡When there was less quantity of waste, it was fully processed by the natural purification action. But when the excretions became abundant and surpassed the amount that mother nature cou...
Is pollution necessary?In this century, synthetics have made a significant difference in many people'slives. The developments of synthetics have helped people lead a "good" comfortable and convenient life. This has been made possible with the development of: plastic containers, and bottles, medical ...
Thermal Pollution: A Global Problem Recently, as a result of the increased energy demand, we've allowed our planet to begin overheating. With the introduction of more and more heated water into our lakes and rivers, and Carbon Dioxide into the atmosphere we've managed to raise the temperature of ...
The Fuel Emissions Reduction Act Pollution in the United States is getting worse and worse by the day. Poor air quality is a serious issue and health risk in cities throughout the country. The main source of the pollution problem is our transportation. Cars produce roughly one half of the pollut...
Seagulls Choke and DieToday there exist many solutions and all kinds of preventions to every single kind of pollution. In the United States alone, a major effort against pollution of air began with a Clean Air Act in 1970 (ametsoc.org). The act required that air could contain only a limited amount ...
Since the beginning of evolution, humans have been creating innovative ways to simplify life. From the discovery of fire to modern advances in technology, the main objective was to simplify adversity in life. Although modern advances in technology have proven advantageous, few people take the time t...
Over Population There are several problems that affect the world today: war, crime, pollution, and several others. Overpopulation is a serious dilemma that is growing every year, every minute, and every second. It is the root of most, if not all, of the world's problems1. It is the greate...
The definition of acid rain is rain containing acids that form in the atmosphere and combine with water, regardless of the cause. Pollution, volcanic eruptions, power-generating plants, forest fires, and even lightning bolts are causes of acid rain. Acidic rain has been measured in several locations...
There has been great discussion and controversy over something that has recently been proposed to Canadians. This something is the Kyoto Accord. The Kyoto Accord is a doctrine that was put together to help reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions and therefore reduce the global warming phenomen...
Overpopulation is having disastrous effects on the environment. The forests are being cut down. The atmosphere is becoming contaminated with increasing amounts of carbon dioxide. The oceans and seas are being polluted and over fished. There are simply too many people on earth. The UNFPA (United ...
Global Warming is something that has been going on now for a long time. Over the years scientists have been telling people, that all the pollutants that we put in the air were doing damage to the earth and the ozone. Some scientists disagreed with that statement and because of that there was nothing...
1. Acid Rain is caused by pollution containing sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, and ozone that is released into the air. These chemicals are absorbed into clouds and results in Acid Presipitation ( Acid Rain, Acid Snow, Acid Hail, Acid Sleet ). When the chemicals aren\'t absorbed into the clouds, the...
This article talks about how the hydrogen economy will be coming. There are a lot of obstacles that they must surpass to form a hydrogen economy. In the year 2003, President George W. Bush announced a 1.7 billion research program to develop a vehicle that would make the air cleaner and use less oil...
There are many ways to produce electricity but unfortunately not all of them are clean and safe. Luckily here in Canada we have clean and safe alternatives to things like the burning of fossil fuels. We are the largest producer of hydropower in the world. Hydro energy is electricity made using water...
Despite the many things that are created from cutting down trees, I abhor the fact that trees are being destroyed because trees provide a home for many creatures, they are the lungs of our world, and trees have medicinal benefits that are useful to the human race. Trees are very beneficial...
1. Identify current trends, scale and likely future sources of carbon monoxide, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, lead, particles and photochemical oxidants..... AGA notes that considerable background material is already available on this issue including the State of the Environment Report and o...
With continual advances in health, science, and technology, all aspects of a person\'s life are greatly improved. Once devastating diseases are now better understood and sometimes even treatable. With transportation advances, people easily hop on a jet and soar across the world in a matter of hours....
Energy is one of the most fundamental qualities in our lives. Almost everything in the world is run by energy. We need electricity to turn on the lights, gas to power our cars, and energy to give us heat to warm our homes. Today, we are totally dependent on an abundant and inexhaustible supply of...
Acid Rain The damaging effects of acid rain on society is becoming overwhelmed with great amounts of pollution from cars, factories and an large amounts of garbage. The immense amounts of sulphur dioxide put into the air causes high levels of acid in the atmosphere. When this sulphuric acid is...
Friends of the Earth say that "up to 24,000 people die every year as a result of airpollution." That is not much of a surprise when there are now around 500 millioncars polluting the planet. The problem is that we can't live without cars, becausethey are part of our daily lives. But, from the figur...
As far back as human history goes, scientists today have discovered the depletion of the ozone layer and have studied how it is caused by human actions and inventions that affect our environment and style of living. As the cause of this, many changes have been taking place during the past twenty yea...
We get energy from sunlight, wind, nuclear plants, and damns... However, most of the points that we use come from fossil fuels. There are three primary fossil fuels: coal, oil, and natural gas. These are composed of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur. Carbon is the major element in fossi...