How Does Pollution Effect the Environment?

shivin, Yahoo! Contributor Network
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There are various types of pollution for example air, water, and land pollution. Pollution is the release of contaminants into the environment. It effects everything in the world and is everywhere it even effects remote places like the artic. There is nowhere on the planet that is not polluted.

Air pollution is the contamination of air by the discharge of harmful substance. Air pollution harms humans. It causes health problems such as burning eyes and nose. There is also ore serious health problems that it can cause some chemicals can cause cancer, birth defects, brain, and nerve damage. Air pollution damages the ozone layer that protects us from the harmful ultraviolet rays from the sun. Air pollution also effects plants it interferes with photosynthesis so the plants can not properly make their own food. It affects the fruits the plants grow and make them smaller and less nutritious.

Water pollution is the addition of harmful materials to a body of water in concentrations that affect its quality. Water pollution kills life that lives in water. Water pollution also affects the food chain when smaller organisms eat it and are than eaten by larger ones eventually humans come into the food chain too. People can get hepatitis by eating poisoned seafood. Plants are also affected by water pollution. As people dump chemicals into the water the plants there are affected by it. The chemicals work as a fertilizer by making the plants grow as they grow they need more and more oxygen that they used to share with other organisms that lived there. As the plants die from their lack of water they have to decompose which uses even more oxygen, which the fish and other organisms need to survive. This causes the whole ecosystem to be unbalanced.

Land pollution is the addition of undesirable matter to the land that may damage the terrestrial organisms. Mainly herbicides and pesticides pollute soil. Land can also become contaminated by activities such as mining and improper waste disposal. Air pollution also affects Land pollution, acid rain caused by air pollution comes down and soaks into the ground and pollutes all the ground water. Because all water leads to the ocean even the polluted ground water will get to the ocean and pollute it too.

The Earth has very fragile ecosystems and pollution takes away the balance of all of them. Humans should control their waste and not throw it into the ocean or on the land. All of our pollution is going to come back and affect us if we don't stop polluting or world.

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