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Land Pollution
Land pollution is caused by humans and their misuse and improper disposal of waste material. This would include: agriculture, mining, industries, sewage waste, ashes, garbage, chemicals and other toxic debris and household improperly disposed of. Ask questions about related health problems, birth defects, prevention, in general what can we do as caring people to prevent and clean up.
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What are some enviromental issue in Cameroon?
Cameroon faces several environmental issues, including deforestation, which is driven by logging, agriculture, and urbanization, leading to habitat loss and biodiversity decline. Additionally, pollution from industrial activities and inadequate waste management poses significant risks to water quality and public health. Climate change impacts, such as altered rainfall patterns and increased temperatures, further exacerbate these challenges, affecting agriculture and food security. Lastly, poaching and wildlife trafficking threaten the country's rich biodiversity, particularly in protected areas.
Ramps are considered to be a simple machine. It uses an inclined plane to quickly move items. Wheelchair ramps represent a traditional example of this slope.
Cows trod to treegap and that's how the roads to treegap were made
How many miles from the ocean shore can you dump human waste?
if that question is serious...
then the better question would be:
how much does a good lawyer cost?
(ps: i REALLY hope you are a troll)
It is sometimes called the Mother of Presidents because it has bee the birthplace of eight US Presidents.
What actions is the Indian government doing to stop female foeticide and infanticide?
The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has adopted a multi-pronged strategy to check female foeticide, which includes legislative measures, awareness generation as well as programmes for socio-economic empowerment of women. The steps taken by the government to prevent female foeticide under the Pre conception and Pre natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994, PC & PNDT Act include the following:
Reconstitution of statutory bodies under the Act and regular meetings of the Central Supervisory Board, State Supervisory Board and Advisory Committees to monitor effective implementation of the law.
Rule 11(2) of the PC & PNDT Rules, 1996 has been amended to provide for confiscation of unregistered machines and further punishment of organizations which fail to register themselves under the Act.
Dedicated PNDT cells have been set up at State/district level for enhancing in-house capacities for building credible cases for conviction against violations of the Act.
Surprise field inspections of ultrasound clinics by the National Inspection and Monitoring Committee (NIMC) in states/UTs against violations under the Act.
NIMC has been further empowered to oversee follow-up action by Appropriate Authorities against organizations found guilty of violations under the Act during inspections.
Sensitization and training programme have been conducted for law enforcers, medical practitioners, judiciary etc. for effective implementation of the Act.
Comprehensive Information, Education & Communication (IEC) activities including mass media awareness campaign through print and electronic media and community mobilization through Non-Governmental Organizations have also been undertaken.
Your role in safeguarding the environment?
In order to safeguard the environment one should use resources sparingly. They should avoid wasting and littering of materials as well and recycle all they can.
What are three factors which are responsible for waste land?
Three key factors contributing to wasteland formation include deforestation, which depletes soil nutrients and disrupts ecosystems; soil degradation, often caused by unsustainable agricultural practices, leading to erosion and loss of fertility; and urbanization, which involves converting natural land into urban areas, resulting in habitat destruction and increased pollution. Together, these factors diminish land productivity and ecological balance, creating wastelands.
because the angels are sad and they feel its dry outside.
Why is it important to have an air gap in a water rocket?
Water is non-compressible. The air gap is what allows additional air to be pumped into the rocket.
Does pollution affect platypuses?
Pollution will effect every living creature on the planet so, yeah.
What do lichens look like in a pollution area?
In polluted areas, lichens often exhibit signs of stress or decline, resulting in reduced diversity and abundance. They may appear discolored, with yellow, brown, or even black patches, and may have a crusty or shriveled appearance. Sensitive species tend to disappear, while more pollution-tolerant species may dominate, leading to changes in overall lichen community structure. Overall, the health and variety of lichens can serve as indicators of environmental quality in these regions.
Is natural resource depletion a air or land pollution?
Resource depletion is an economic term referring to the exhaustion of raw materials within a region. Resources are commonly divided between renewable resources and non-renewable resources. (See also Mineral resource classification.) Use of either of these forms of resources beyond their rate of replacement is considered to be resource depletion.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_depletion
What do you predict will happen to the nutria population after all the land is depleted of?
The nutria's death rate will increase and emigration will begin
What is your role in your environment?
I must have to give only 10 min of my every day to my best friend enviornment.then i will sure that i can complete at least some reat duty of my life
What can we design to stop industrial pollution?
Fast neutron nuclear reactors, among other new Nuclear technologies. Nuclear power is the cleanest most efficient power source. Reducing burning of fossil fuels will significantly reduce pollution in the atmosphere.
How human activities interfere phosphorus cycle?
The carbon cycle is the biogeochemical cycle by which carbon is exchanged among the biosphere, pedosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere of the Earth. It is one of the most important cycles of the earth and allows for carbon to be recycled and reused throughout the biosphere and all of its organisms.
The coal, oil, and natural gas that drive the industrial world's economy all contain carbon inhaled by plants hundreds of millions of years ago-carbon that now is returning to the atmosphere through smokestacks and exhaust pipes, joining emissions from forest burned to clear land in poorer countries. Carbon dioxide is foremost in an array of gases from human activity that increase the atmosphere's ability to trap heat. (Methane from cattle, rice fields, and landfills, and the chlorofluorocarbons in some refrigerators and air conditioners are others.) Few scientists doubt that this greenhouse warming of the atmosphere is already taking hold. Melting glaciers, earlier springs, and a steady rise in global average temperature are just some of its harbingers.
By rights it should be worse. Each year humanity dumps roughly 8.8 billion tons (8 metric tons) of carbon into the atmosphere, 6.5 billion tons (5.9 metric tons) from fossil fuels and 1.5 billion (1.4 metric) from deforestation. But less than half that total, 3.2 billion tons (2.9 metric tons), remains in the atmosphere to warm the planet.
Phosphorous is a multivalent nonmetal of the nitrogen group. It is found in nature in several allotropic forms, and is an essential element for the life of organisms. Concentrated phosphoric acids are used in fertilizers for agriculture and farm production. Phosphates are used for special glasses, sodium lamps, in steel production, in military applications (incendiary bombs, smoke screenings etc.), and in other applications as: pyrotechnics, pesticides, toothpaste, detergents. White phosphorus enters the environment when industries use it to make other chemicals and when the army uses it as ammunition. Through discharge of wastewater white phosphorus ends up in surface waters near the factories that use it.
White phosphorus is not likely to spread, because it reacts with oxygen fairly quickly. When phosphorus ends up in air through exhausts it will usually react with oxygen right away to be converted into less harmful particles. However, when phosphorus particles are in air they may have a protective coating that prevents chemical reactions.
In water, white phosphorus is not reacting with other particles that quickly and as a result it will accumulate in the bodies of aquatic organisms. In soil phosphorus will remain for several days before it is converted into less harmful substances. But in deep soils and the bottom of rivers and lakes phosphorus may remain for a thousand years or so.
phosphorus have many effects upon organisms. The effects are mainly consequences of emissions of large quantities of phosphate into the environment due to mining and cultivating. During water purification phosphates are often not removed properly, so that they can spread over large distances when found in surface waters. Due to the constant addition of phosphorus by humans and the exceeding of the natural concentrations, the phosphor cycle is strongly disrupted. The increasing phosphor concentrations in surface waters raise the growth of phosphate-dependent organisms, such as algae and duckweed. These organisms use great amounts of oxygen and prevent sunlight from entering the water. This makes the water fairly unliveable for other organisms. This phenomenon is commonly known as eutrophication.
