what causes enviromental degradation and how??
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Speciffically, deforestation, overgrazing, slash and burn practices, open pit mining, water pollution and air pollution, to name a few.
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The ozone layer is thining through incresed pollutio by planes brought about by a peak in flyers, green house emissions, increased industrial pollution, forest degradation. all these allow more UV light penetration into earth and will continue to increase unless we stop polluting the environement.:(
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Pollution can cause the following harms:\n1. Dust particles and smoke particles deposit themselves in the lungs and cause respiratory problems.\n2. Carbon monoxide react with the red blood cells to form carboxy haemoglobin. Then red blood cells loose the capacity to carry oxygen.\n3. Chlorofluorocarbons destroy the ozone layer and this in turn can cause skin cancer.\n4. Sulphur dioxide and nitric oxide dissolve in water to form acid rain. This acid rain destroys buildings and damages crops and trees.\n\nWell,that's all i have.Hope this bit of information helps you to get through your homework.\nAll the best.
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Many things, try lookin it up in the internet, type ur question on yahoo search, and many things will come up for u. good luck with ur info, the real spelling is environment
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A huge die-off caused either by a plague, or poisoned water, or starvation. The planet will turn on us and wipe us out. Then it will start all over again with bacteria and salt water.
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Thermal pollution is the heating of the environment caused typically by any industrial process that produces heat.  Such process could be chemical plants, electric power generating plants and even wastewater plants. In the case of power plants vast volumes of water are used to cool the process and in so doing the water that is used to cool the process is itself heated up (transfer of heat) this water is typically returned to its origin - in some cases the sea. \n\nWhen water is heated up typically gases such as oxygen are not as soluable as they are at lower temperatures. A reduction in oxygen could produce negative effects on the life cycle of marine organisms ranging from adult mortality to reduced reproductive capacity. This is one common example of thermal pollution and solubility. \n\nIn Europe and other non costal areas of the US rivers are often used as a source of cooling water and thermal pollution is a real concern.\n\nHope this is helpful.
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Hi CrazyLady!  Your questions are excellent, but not easy to answer in a short response.  This is a very complex issue.  I would like to suggest a wonderful book with a 'nasty' name by Sherry Rogers, M.D.  Dr. Rogers is a leading expert on environmental medicine and the biochemical causes of disease.  The book is called: "Detoxify or Die".  It covers this issue in detail, yet it is easy to read and is packed with the scientific references that support the information as science and not heresy.\n\nThe book is available at Amazon.com or from the publisher (at 1-800-846-6687).  I highly recommend this book if you are serious about your health and detoxification issues.\n\nBest wishes and good luck.
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Try This\n\n"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_Psychology"
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It is important because of the enviroment. The animals, the air quality all need to be very clean. If an area doesnt stay clean, the enviroment will become nasty
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Working in environmental analytics, pollution situations are a common experience. One of the most common occurrances of pollution is sullage or liquid manure in surface waters, absolutely deadly for all life forms requiring oxygen from the water, and poisonous for plants in high concentrations, too.\n\nPollution can be quite natural...
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Environmental degradation and massive overpopulation.
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Pollution caused by recreation, rather than industry or government.  Examples would be boaters who throw wastes overboard, noise and exhaust from SUVs and the like, etc.  We can all think of examples when we are sitting home at our computers.  The trick is to remember that the next time we visit a sensitive environment.  Even smoke from a barbecue is pollution, although perhaps a tolerable level.  Certainly all litter is pollution.
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OMG EEEEK! jump off a bridge into a vat of toxic waste, hopefully it will reverse this problem lol
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in regards of soil contamination, this can occur for many reasons in just about any area anywhere in the world. \n\nIf you are concerned about it in regards of a large geographic area, check with the local authorities, as they will be aware of most known pockets and issues.\n\nIf you are concerned about a specific site, or smaller pocket of land, you are best to do soil testing of samples of soil from those specific locations.\n\nIn the yellow pages of any larger town you will find engineering companies that can and will, for a fee, do soil testing.\n\nYou will find contaminated sites in any town, to some degree, and dependent of your concerns and or fears, it may be advisable to do the complete the above suggested preventive research, however it is always possible that contamination seeps in and or on to your site, by way of ground water, creeks, and or actual dumping, so even at the best of times any one set of testing is  picture in time and not a catch all complete solution.\n\nGood luck
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Pollution is the release of chemicals, physical, biological or radioactive contaminants to the environment. The major forms of pollution include:\n\nair pollution, the release of chemicals and particulates into the atmosphere. Common examples include carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), and nitrogen oxides produced by industry and motor vehicles. Ozone and smog are created as nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons react to sunlight. \nwater pollution via surface runoff and leaching to groundwater. \nradioactive contamination, added in the wake of 20th-century discoveries in atomic physics. (See alpha emitters and actinides in the environment.) \nnoise pollution, which encompasses roadway noise, aircraft noise, industrial noise as well as high-intensity sonar. \nlight pollution, includes light trespass, over-illumination and astronomical interference. \nvisual pollution, which can refer to the presence of overhead power lines, motorway billboards, scarred landforms (as from strip mining), open storage of junk or municipal solid waste.
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Photocatalytic degradation is any process that decomposes a compound that is catalyzed by the presence of electromagnetic radiation.  For example, certain plastics will naturally oxidize over time, and become brittle.  this reaction is accelerated by the presence of sunlight.
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Our beautiful earth is being destroyed. Thousands and thousands of trees are being cut down in short amounts of time, and trees give us the oxygen we need to survive. People are polluting the earth by littering, dumping trash into rivers, lakes and oceans. Car exhaust and smoking causes smog and makes the oxygen layer in our atmosphere thinner. If we don’t take action, our earth will end up like one big junkyard.