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Articles about pollution (0-50 of 4282)
- We Must Act Now
By: Anushka | - The human race has evolved over the ages, from a primitive being solely dependent on his surroundings and at the mercy of Mother Nature, to a master of all he beholds. The human capability of innovation and intelligent thinking has enabled us to better ourselves with each passing day. Humans are said to have started off a primitive being commonly better known as the "Early Man". From then on, the human race has been responsible for and witness to a plethora of advances and development. What star ...
Tags: environment, global warming, pollution
- Vacuum Cleaners And Indoor Pollution Problem
By: Ryan Even | - Indoor air pollution in America is a serious and often misunderstood problem. Oddly enough, air quality is related to modern construction techniques.
Todays homes are far superior to yesterday homes in terms of insulation and air-tight sealing. While this is great in terms of energy efficiency and keeping pollens, smuts and other pollutants outside, it also ensures that any pollutants already in the home will remain unless removed. We can either open the doors and windows to 'air ...
Tags: Vacuum Cleaners, Indoor Pollution
- Simple Ways To Avoid Indoor Pollution
By: William Donegan | - It is high time to change the common conception that pollution exists only outdoors.
Levels of indoor pollutants are higher than outdoor pollutants and could be a threat to healthy living. Carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, pollen, pests, and even pets could be the cause of indoor pollution. It is extremely important to control indoor pollution as we spend a major part of our day indoors. Chemical pollutants could come from outdoors or they migh ...
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- Vacuum Cleaners And Indoor Pollution Problem
By: Ryan Even | - Indoor air pollution in America is a serious and often misunderstood problem. Oddly enough, air quality is related to modern construction techniques.
Todays homes are far superior to yesterday homes in terms of insulation and air-tight sealing. While this is great in terms of energy efficiency and keeping pollens, smuts and other pollutants outside, it also ensures that any pollutants already in the home will remain unless removed. We can either open the doors and windows to 'air ...
Tags: Vacuum Cleaners, Indoor Pollution
- Help The Environment By Recycling Products
By: Erwin Purtell | - A great way to have less on an effect on the eco system is to help the environment by recycling. The simple concept of using select raw materials several times instead of using it only once and then dropping it, is a smart way of minimizing the pollutants released into the environment while giving consumers assurance at the same time. Done right recycling also implies savings for both consumers and manufactures.
If you are interested in recycled products, it is critical that you ...
Tags: recycling, global warming, eco friendly, pollution
- Save The Environment
By: rogeranthoni | - Saving the environment for different hazardous thins is a pretty difficult task. There may be easy things to do like just simply dont rubbish all around dont burn wastes recycle them etc.
What else can be done to save our environment from polluting? What can a normal person do? Except for these small things, every person cannot do research, but together with little adjustments we can make a big change.
There are certain things that may help pollute our e ...
Tags: environment, Forest reserves, Pollution, life
- Really Forgetting The Past
By: David C. Welch | - There is much back and forth bickering about the idea of shifting "carbon credits" from countries that produce too much carbon (dioxide) to countries that do not produce as much carbon. Radical environmentalists propose that countries producing large amounts of carbon be penalized for their excessive carbon production by making payments to countries that do not emit much carbon. In addition to punishing the carbon over-producers, this would serve to boost the economies of countries that produce ...
Tags: carbon, carbon credits, global warming, environment, pollution
- How To Improve Your Environment Through Recycling
By: Jamie Hanson | - Now-a-days, people are living contented and satisfied life, thanks to the advanced technology that has made living easy. But these lavishness will never remain forever, these are impermanent. Though the technology is developing for the betterment of the people, but it has considerable side-effects too. There is a significant increase in environmental pollution levels in past two decades. Air and water pollution has caused serious environmental and health hazards. Air pollution is due to the disc ...
Tags: Environmental Information, Environmental pollution, Waste Re
- How To Do Environmental Testing
By: sturat.mitchel | - In recent years, the medical community has shown us that our environment may be causing cancer and a lot of the illness we experience. So it has become very important to have Environmental Testing done.
When our homes are built, the land they sit on may well have been used at one time for a hazard waste area. However, until recent studies we never associated some of these things with danger. For example the chemicals left behind on property where produce was grown, may have a bu ...
Tags: Environmental testing, asbestos, air pollution
- The Smoke Damage And Pollution From Burning Pits
By: Aydan Corkern | - If you live in the country do you have a pit in your yard that you burn things in? These pits used to be all over the place, but with all of the dry weather and new burning laws these days they have become few and far between. You used to burn everything that was used each day in the country, but now most of these items are not allowed to be burned. Some people that live out in the country still burn everything and on some days you can smell it when you drive by. Another reason why this happened ...
Tags: smoke damage, air pollution, burning pits, black smoke, compost
- The Different Sources Of Smoke And What It Does To You
By: Aydan Corkern | - All kinds of smoke can effect you because it can have toxins and chemicals in it that are very dangerous. Smoke can get in your body by smoking, fires, something burning, your vehicles, and more. Some things that give off smoke are more dangerous than others because it can do more damage to your system. When it gets in the air it brings those toxins with it, so everyone will can affected by it and sometimes will not even know it. Pollution is almost everywhere in the air we breathe making it dan ...
Tags: smoke, fires, toxins, chemicals, smoking cigarettes, cancer, pollution
- Big Companies Are Not The Only Ones Who Produce Toxic Smoke
By: Aydan Corkern | - Are you a business owner? Is this business one that puts emissions in the air we breathe? Do you realize these fumes are probably toxic? Our government has tried for years to make companies slow down on the amount of emissions they put into our air supply. Most of these companies are doing all that they can, but then some of them do not seem to be doing enough. A lot of the time you could go by these plants and see these fumes or smoke being sent out of the stacks into the air.
So ...
Tags: smoke, air supply, breathing problems, environmentally safe, pollution
- The Noise Emergency, How To Deal With It
By: Michele de Capitani | - Whoever is used to live in the city tends to take the noise for granted; in fact disorientation is a classic sign that hits us when we are spending an evening in the countryside or in a little town and so it happens to have around us a bit of real silence. Noise is a constant factor in modern life, among cars, music, screams, horns, telephones, drills and so on.
Sometimes we cannot even remember what silence is. It is something to fear about, as the awkward silence between two peo ...
Tags: noise pollution, soundproof, soundproof cabin, contamination, workplace
- A Great Demand For Water Pollution Solutions Necessary For Survival
By: Coastal Enterprises | - The high demand for water pollution solutions increases as the threat to the survival of this generation as we know it is increasing, due to increasing toxic waste in water and the pollution levels in our environment.
Because of this, people are now becoming more aware of the importance of take care of our resources. Not only would the failure of this have a devastating effect on our future generations, it could also effect their ability to survive at all.
How to ...
Tags: Water pollution solutions, how to stop water pollution, solutions to water pollution, fresh water pollution, clean water act
- Cigarette Pollution: Get The Faqs
By: Art Gib | - It's hard to measure the environmental impact of the billions of discarded cigarette butts worldwide, but researchers have been doing just that over a number of years. If you are a smoker or if you are a world citizen concerned about the toxins that are taking over our planet, read on.
First, imagine this scenario: when a Frenchman goes about developing a fine wine, he considers where he will plant his vineyard very carefully. He knows that where he chooses to grow his vines will ...
Tags: Cigarette Pollution
- Noise Pollution Is The Real Poison Of Our Planet
By: Michele de Capitani | - Even if the title is deliberately forced and in an opposite trend, noise pollution is for real one of the greatest trouble of modern civilization. In fact, the actual society ferment foresees always open construction sites, airports with more and more traffic, crowded nightclubs and overall an increasing heavy industrialization, all these phenomenon put under big pressure the eardrums of almost 50 million people just in Italy (source: World Health Organization).
How is it possible ...
Tags: noise pollution, environment, quality of life, life standard, soundproof
- Every Year, Statistics Reveal Alarming Pollution Facts That Affect The Very Life On Earth.
By: toledogogreen | - Every Year, Statistics Reveal Alarming Pollution Facts That Affect The Very Life On Earth. If We Take Each And Every Individual We'll Actually Discover A Very Low Environment Consciousness Awareness That Allows For The Care And Regeneration Of Ecosystems, The Recycling Of Most House Waste And The Respect For Nature In The Tiniest Aspect. The Following Pollution Facts Serve As An Example For Our Level Of Ignorance And Lack Of Commitment To An Environment-friendly Lifestyle.
Ships a ...
Tags: Statistics, Reveal, Alarming, Pollution, Facts
- Pollution Is One Form Of Smoke Damage We Must Learn To Control
By: Aydan Corkern | - Have you ever really looked at they line and saw this brownish color hanging under the cloud line? A lot of this that you see is the product from all of the vehicles that cause pollution everyday. Our country has put a lot of pressure on the automobile companies to build cleaner cars with less toxins that are put in the air. But every day the number of drivers increase and many of them are driving the older cars. Some drivers can not afford these new vehicles because the price might just be out ...
Tags: air supply, environment, pollution, global warming, smoke damage, cleaner fuels
- Rising Water Due To Melting Ice
By: Aydan Corkern | - Every year more and more pollution is being put in the air and in the last few years it has done a lot of damage to the ice lands. Did you know that in 2003 the ice lands of Greenland, Alaska, and Antarctica has melted over 2 trillion tons of ice due to global warming? This is causing animals to lose their homes and food supply. It is also causing them to die and is causing them to become extinct. Satellites have shown how bad it is getting and how much damage is being done.
The ...
Tags: rising water, Antartica, glaciers, floods, greenhouse gases, pollution
- Noise Pollution: The Real Contamination Of Xxi Century
By: Michele de Capitani | - In whole Italy, from Aosta down to the Lampedusa Island, you can hear just one scream: stop the noise.
In fact, the noise pollution is a big trouble that afflicts modern life. Construction sites, airports, nightclubs, heavy industry, traffic, all these problems put to the test nerves and eardrums of over 40 million Italian people every day (according to WHO).
But what do Italians do to protect themselves from this terrible enemy? Usually and even more often they gat ...
Tags: environment, noise pollution, soundproof, air treatmen, air filtration
- How Buying Local Food Can Save The Planet
By: Shawn Wilson | - It is estimated that 48 Billion dollars worth of food is thrown away in the United States because it spoils before it reaches the grocery store. It really is amazing how far food travels these days and the whole organic shift has only made this worse. Do you want organic Romaine lettuce when you live in New York in the dead of winter? Well this stuff is either coming from California or worse Mexico. It is shocking how much pollution is caused by shipped foods and if you are old enough you rememb ...
Tags: local food, environment, pollution, global warming, organic
- The Fight To Reduce Damage To Our Air
By: Aydan Corkern | - We really need to improve the condition of the air we breathe. From the fine particles of pollution by the amount of diesel-burning trucks, our power plants, the wood-burning stoves and the other sources, it is causing the amount of soot to raise, in turn causing heart problems and also breathing problems. In a lot of our bigger cities where there are a lot of cars on their roads, the smog or soot levels in the air are sometimes so heavy that you might not be able to go outside because this coul ...
Tags: water, damage, restoration, pollution, environment, air, cars, vehicles
- Saving The Delaware River From Pollution
By: Richard Barthallo | - Delaware is rich in natural resources and it's one of the state assets. Its sandy soil is fertile and well-watered ideal for agricultural purposes. Some minerals that are found in the state are mainly sand and gravel. But as time goes by, we cannot ignore the fact that the state is eventually losing its resources. These are because of improper handling of these resources by irresponsible waste disposal and abusing its functionality. Right now, Delaware is facing a battle against pollution.
Tags: saving, the, delaware, river, from, pollution
- Deadly Smoke All Over The World
By: Aydan Corkern | - One of the worst pollutants that is affecting our planet right now is smoke. Smoke from cars, smoke from industries, smoke from fires, and smoke from tobacco. Some are more significant than others, but all of them contribute to the nastiness in the air that we breathe. Some of these sources of smoke are believed to be changing the climate of our world. This is in turn supposedly causing several species of animals to become endangered, humans among them.
Could it really be true tha ...
Tags: smoke, pollution, environment, fire, planes, automobiles, cars, global warming
- Air Pollution Is An Ongoing Problem
By: Al Haneson | - As time goes on, measures that used to work to reduce air pollution are becoming outdated and not quite as efficient. New pollution control efforts have recently tightened up standards in order to remove higher amounts of pollution from overly-populated cities and countries that are now surrounded by acid rain, smog, toxic contamination, potential health risks, and increases in cancer and respiratory illnesses - all which are contributing to global warming. Recent changes in new pollution contro ...
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- Top 10 Tips To Reduce Car Pollution
By: carazoo.com | - Indian car industry is predominated with a number of old and new cars. The increasing number of cars on road is the primary cause of increasing environmental pollution.
Petrol engines comprise of a combination of gases including the hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, and oxides of nitrogen. These gases present in the combustion engine blend with air to produce power to run the car. Some of the mixture is used for power production and the rest is expelled from the combustion engine. T ...
Tags: Indian Car Industry, New Cars, Car Pollution, Car Maintenance, Indian Car
- 7 Simple Solutions To Indoor Air Pollution
By: Eddie Hudd | - Unbelievably, the air within modern homes can be upwards of five times more polluted than outdoor air. When you also consider that we can spend up to ninety percent of our lives indoors, the term sick building syndrome should require little explanation. Outside air, unlike inside, is recycled repeatedly with pollutants such as tobacco smoke, pollen, mold, dust and pet dander all adding towards asthma and allergies.
There are various symptoms associated with so called sick building ...
Tags: indoor air pollution, home air purifier, home air cleaner purifier, indoor air quality
- Use A Canvas Bag When You Go Shopping!
By: David Kam | - Canvas bags have become the new way to fight pollution. With plastic bag pollution on the rise (billions of them are scattered on the landfills each year) it is time for us to respond to it. The best way to eliminate plastic bag pollution is to find an alternative source, one that is less deadly and more reusable. Thats where the canvas bag kicks in. By using canvas bags, we can help eliminate pollution and keep it at a standstill (or better yet, decrease it)!
Theres a popul ...
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- Save The Sky
By: Lucy Evans | - For those sky-watchers who worry about the environment, having the world go green is not enough. The preferred color is a dark green. Although light pollution doesn't generally cause as much alarm as other issues such as the changing climate, there is an outspoken community of stargazers that feel this is an important problem that must be worked on and eventually solved.
Light pollution is a growing concern, detracting from the vastness and beauty of the numerous stars and constel ...
Tags: Pollution, Environment, Sky
- Healthy Lifestyles, Pollution, Child Sickness - Still Much To Be Done
By: Derek Dashwood | - Researchers at the University of British Columbia and the University of Alberta have confirmed, based on World Health Organization studies, that from 8,000 to 24,000 new cases of cancer occur in Canada yearly due to pollution. This finding is a shock to Canadians who recycle, bicycle or walk whenever possible. But rampant industrialized waste and a lack still, of stringent enough regulations, are causing misery among those exposed to these toxins.
If this is happening in pristine ...
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- Thought Pollution Effects
By: Oro Selket | - Thought Pollution is what affects kids and lowers them from the super state. First you have to acknowledge the existence of thought pollution, then determine where is it coming from, is it from the TV or movies or songs listened to, or friends, or relatives, once you know then you will be able to protect your kid until they can understand the difference between good and not so good input to their minds. One of the thought pollution points is the I want it now syndrome, instant gratification or d ...
Tags: parenting, raising kids, thought pollution
- Can Words Pollute The Air?
By: Knight Pierce Hirst | - When you think pollution, you're thinking dirty thoughts - but not just about the environment. Our language becomes less pure every day. Being anxious about it used to mean you were worried; but because so many people used the word incorrectly, now saying you're anxious can mean you're eagerly wishing for it. Does that mean an eager beaver is worried?
Gossip is language that dirties peoples' reputations. It's like manure. It's spread and it stinks. If gossipers had to eat their o ...
Tags: Humor, Women, Men, Pollution, Environment, Greenpeace
- The Main Sources Of Pollution
By: bdd7707 | - The main sources of pollution are:
Industry
Transports
Volcano eruptions
Natural fires
Dust storms
Housekeeping activities
The main polluter in the world is nowadays the industry. During the industrial process, harmful substances are set free into the atmosphere, causing local catastrophes when special filters are inexis ...
Tags: environment, nature, green, pollution, global warming, animals, health, world, earth
- Shrouded In Smoke: Barcelona Receives Alarming Reports On Air Pollution Levels.
By: Gaizka Pujana | - According to the latest reports, Spain is one of the top five worst ozone polluters in the world, and one of the furthest away from meeting protocols on greenhouse gas emissions as set out by the Kyoto Agreement.
In the Environmental Ministry Report released earlier this month, fifty of Spains biggest cities are more than exceeding governments guidelines for limits on air pollution. The worst offenders are Madrid, Seville, Valencia and Barcelona.
In Barcelona, the ...
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- What Is The Cause Of Water Pollution?
By: nathfiset | - Water pollution refers to the changes in the physical, biological, and chemical conditions of any body of water which harmfully disrupts the balance of the ecosystem.
Like any type of pollution, water pollution results when an overwhelming amount of waste coming from different sources of pollutants can no longer be accommodated by the natural ecosystem. Consequently, when the wastes are not destroyed as fast as they are produced, they make it unfavorable to humans and many other o ...
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- Acid Rain Pollution
By: nathfiset | - Acid rain has been a preoccupation since 1966 in the scientific community. Scientists finally could describe and explain the phenomenon. Acid rain was not a random problem anymore. More surprising was evidence that man himself was causing this menace to nature. The focus was now on trying to stop it. Acid rain is a worldwide problem. Countries with higher pollution emission are more affected. We only recently realized the great danger of acid rain. Its effects on nature are more and more obvious ...
Tags: acid rain pollution oxygen global warming
- Pollution And Its Effect On Human Skin
By: Prashant Srivastava | - We all know that one of the enemies of modern civilization is Pollution. In fact it's a silent killer who is responsible for causing various diseases and many of them are also fatal. Very few of us aware about its exact impact on our specific organs.
Skin is the most sensitive part of human body. According to the researchers everything we apply on the skin pass through the layer stratum corneum. Due to air pollution in the city, ozone quickly strips vitamin E (which indulges ...
Tags: pollution, skin, UV rays
- Destroyed The Earth And You!
By: Veronique Belmar | - Once it was Beautiful to Behold
Long ago the earth was beautiful to behold but as time went by its beauty slowly began disappearing. Throughout the centuries the earth has been crying out to give it rest but its cries have not been heard or listened to. In rebellion it spews out mud killing thousands, its snowy mountains are melting and its waters rising. The winds are blowing ever stronger and tornadoes and hurricanes are destroying and killing many. Earth's pollution is destr ...
Tags: earth, pollution, environment, asthma, water, radiation, sun, breathing, hurricanes, tornadoes, planet, winds, London, technologies, centuries, mounta
- Are You Getting Someone Else's Heartburn? Blessing Your Food And Water
By: Craig Howell | - In this age, we are acutely aware of the physical pollution in our foods. With the spinach scare and a peanut butter scare, we are on guard and most likely heading to our whole foods store instead of the local chain store market. But what about the pollution that you can not see, smell or taste? What about energetic pollution?
I'm not talking about radiation (although many foods are irradiated), but about the energy that is impressed on to food and liquid as it is passed from pers ...
Tags: water blessing, kwan yin, kuan yin, energy, food, water, pollution, spiritual, blessing water
- Antioxidants And Free Radicals - The Good And The Bad
By: Carol Stack | - Free Radicals Damaging our Bodies from Within
Even young people can be victims of unsuccessful aging if they are not providing their bodies with the necessary balance of having enough dietary antioxidants to fight off the free radicals. To understand the value and importance of antioxidants, you must first understand the destructive results of free radicals.
What are free radicals? Scientists have found that the body forms unstable oxygen molecules, called free rad ...
Tags: antioxidants, free radicals, free radical, antioxidant, radiation, pollution, supplement, nutrition
- The Air We Breathe
By: Gary Tooth | - We don't need scientists to tell us we require 'air' to survive. The air we breathe has a gas called oxygen and without it there would be no life period. Humans, plants and animals all need oxygen to survive but although oxygen is a colorless, odorless, and tasteless, there are a lot of pollutants in the air which are not. Worse still, there are a whole bunch of impurities indoors as well as outdoors, which is why ionic air purifiers have become all the rage these days. But just how bad is ba ...
Tags: air, pollution, oxygen, pollutants, air pollution, breathe, greenhouse gases, industrial pollution
- Explosion Of Light
By: Anthony Arrigo | - It happened so slowly that we didn't really even notice it. It's been a part of our lives for so long that we've taken it for granted. Little by little, light by light, we have virtually eliminated the night from large portions of the globe. Light at night is a part of who we are, our 7x24 society craves more and more of it, as if it were the driving force in our economy and even our evolution.
Yet, in our effort to light everything we do, we've not taken notice of a simple fact. ...
Tags: outdoor light, light pollution, night sky, environment
- Why Does The Sky Glow At Night?
By: Anthony Arrigo | - Have you ever noticed that the night sky is no longer inky black and full of stars like it used to be? Have you noticed the strange orangish glow thats replaced it? The strange orangiy glow is a form of light pollution referred to as sky glow.
Sky glow is probably the most recognizable aspect of light pollution. By far the largest segment of the population equates sky glow with light pollution. This is wonderful, as it shows a growing awareness of the problem. As a quick refres ...
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- What Is Light Pollution?
By: Anthony Arrigo | - Light pollution is a growing worldwide problem which affects vast areas of the earth. In a nutshell, Light Pollution is misdirected or misused light... generally resulting from an inappropriate application of outdoor lighting products. Light Pollution comes in several flavors... each with its own negative effects. These are
Sky Glow: light wastefully escaping into the night sky and causing a glow over urban/suburban areas.
Glare: light shining dangerously out into people' ...
Tags: Light pollution, outdoor lights, outdoor lighting, night sky friendly
- The Continuing Spread Of Light Pollution
By: Anthony Arrigo | - Its unfortunate that so many people just dont get it. They seem to feel the need to light and generally overlight everything. They light their homes and businesses. They light parking lots and walkways. They light trees and shrubs. They light just about everything and anything. As if this wasn't bad enought, they tend to light them from dusk to dawn even though most everybody is sleeping during those hours and completely unable to see them anyway. A recent study by the National Park Service's ...
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