Category: Ecology

The answers to this question are varied, because the form of pollution depends on the physical and chemical processes they carry out. Factories are a very diverse group of companies that carry out production processes using a variety of materials. Some are particularly toxic, such as mercury, while others are not directly harmful to humans, …

In the past 13 years alone, deforestation has devastated 43 million hectares worldwide, destroying forests and jungles on a huge scale and causing enormous damage to soil quality. Forests still cover about 30 percent of the world’s regions, but swaths the size of Panama are inevitably lost every year. These are figures from the latest …

Every minute, the equivalent of a truckload of plastic trash is dumped into the ocean. Plastic pollution is a global problem. Approximately 7 billion of the 9.2 billion tons of plastic produced between 1950 and 2017 have become plastic waste that ended up in landfills or dumped in landfills. Plastic pollution can alter habitats and …

How to avoid environmental pollution and how to reduce it – measures There are different ways to avoid environmental pollution depending on when and where we are. We must bear in mind that, although governments and large companies and institutions play a fundamental role in this task, ordinary citizens can also influence environmental pollution through …

Environmental pollution is the result of introducing harmful substances and elements into a natural environment or a sensitive living being, affecting their well-being and generating damage of great negative impact on the natural balance of life. But do you know what are the main causes and consequences of environmental pollution? 4 common causes of environmental …

Waste elimination is one of the global problems of modern civilization. The accumulation of waste is detrimental not only to the environment and human health, but also entails serious social and economic damage. The scale of waste produced by mankind is enormous. It is known that on average one European family generates about a ton …

Waste is one of today’s major environmental problems, which poses a potential danger to human health as well as a danger to the natural environment. In many countries, there is still a problem of misunderstanding the seriousness of the problem of solid waste, and as a result, there are no strict regulations, as well as …

Humans have been destroying nature since the earliest days of their existence. As human civilization grew more complex, so did the state of ecology on our planet. The gene pool is rapidly deteriorating. For several centuries now, the number of plant and animal species has been inexorably declining at a rapid rate. We have already …