Essays on Pollution

When I got on the BX 12 Select Bus Service, I overheard the driver on Fordham Road state, “I do not know what I am breathing, but I do know that it is toxic.” I agreed with the bus driver’s statement. The Fordham Road community is near the South Bronx, which has the highest rate of air pollution. Currently, the air pollution has only worsened due to the current roadwork. This is environmental injustice and action needs to occur because everyone has the fundamental right to clean air ...

Dolphins are lovely and smart animals, but dolphin population worldwide are facing a significant threat. In the area as large as America, there are reports about the massive mortalities of dolphins within a few months. The stranding of more than 740 bottlenose dolphins (approximately 50% of the coastal migrants) was observed from June 1987 to March 1988 along the eastern coast of the U. S (Miller, 1992, p. 791). We have to pay close attention to this issue so that dolphins would not die out ...

Environmental pollution has existed for quite a long time yet just began to be noteworthy after the mechanical insurgency in the nineteenth century. Pollution happens when the regular habitat can't demolish a component without making mischief or harm to itself. The components included are not created by nature, and the pulverizing procedure can differ from a couple of days to a large number of years (that is, for example, the case for radioactive toxins). At the end of the day, pollution ...

Sound is a necessity in our day to day lives but not noise. The term ‘noise’ means unwanted and unpleasant sound which causes discomfort. Many negative impacts on mental and physical health are caused due to nose pollution. The sound more than 130 dB causes noise pollution. Below are some causes of noise pollutions. Noise pollution arises from many causes such as transportation, industrial growth, street noises, aircraft and many other.In my city, automobiles are the major cause of noise ...

Nematodes are becoming popular bioindicators of pollution stress because of their ecological significance as well as the ease of culture and maintenance of large numbers of organisms in the laboratory (Boyd and Williams 2003, Boyd et al. 2010). Here, we highlight three species commonly used both in evolutionary developmental biology as well as in toxicology, the Caenorhabditis elegans, Panagrellus redivivus and the Pristionchus pacificus. C. elegans and P. pacificus are self-fertilizing ...

Apple company has experienced a number of operation related challenges which can be attributed to lack of appropriate operation management procedures. The way the company manages its industrial fluids is poor. The company faces intolerance from the China Labor Watch and Green America due to the emission of amounts of aluminum-magnesium alloy shredding and other dust particles in the air. This is a major environment pollution apart from violating health and safety and human rights laws. Also, ...

There is so much pollution in our oceans and it's barely talked about. There have been some big moments where recently people have talked about saving turtles and just starting to use metal straws instead of plastic, but it quickly got made fun of and was discarded away. Real damage can come to our marine wildlife and even affect us if we don't stop and actually talk about what is happening. More and more pollution is happening each year. It's time to figure out why and put an end to it. There ...

This analysis also tries to discuss the role of citizens and how it can help in reducing the pollution levels in the Capital and also the required coordination and cooperation between the citizens and the government and even among the governments i.e. the Centre and the State government. It also analyses that what are the major contributors to the increasing pollution levels in Delhi according to the various newspapers. This editorial analysis aims at bringing out different opinions, ...

In Puerto Rico and The Caribbean, the impact of fecal contamination in coastal waters and coral reefs is a topic of concern. Water pollution, and particularly sewage from land-based nonpoint sources, is one of the principal threats to coral reefs and its associated ecosystems, not only because of its long-term ecological impact to coral reefs (Prog et al., 1985), but also on water-based recreation . Recently, there has been open to public a new beach for the community in Ponce, Puerto Rico. El ...

Ever since the industrial revolution, humans have increasingly sacrificed the environment for progress. The burning of fossil fuels and in-proper treatment of wastes and chemicals puts a lot of stress on our environment, as specially Lake Ontario, the most downstream of the five lakes, but also the most polluted. Lake Ontario is the water source 4 million people depend on. One can simply not ignore the fact that Lake Ontario is in trouble. More than 185 invasive species have established ...

The environment in which we live has increasingly been inundated with several types of environmental toxicants which has the tendencies of causing injuries and metabolic stress to plants, animals and humans alike (Ita et al., 2018; ). Several industrial pollutants which includes crude petroleum and its allied products such as kerosene, flared gases, premium motor spirit, diesel, 3,1-dinitrobenzene or nonylphenol, methanoxyethanol, glycol ether and brake oils are known to exert testicular ...

The anticipation of contamination is a noteworthy concern in light of its unsafe consequences for condition. We are largely occupants on Earth, everybody is a partner, and each individual has something to add to powerful contamination counteractive action mindfulness. In the event that we recuperate the earth, we mend ourselves. We should all, acknowledge obligation regarding the achievement of our natural insurance programs by partaking in influencing environment contamination to free. ...

Ocean Pollution is a massive issue in our world's oceans. Scientists have realized this and many programs have been made to try to clean up our mess. Pollution is killing off species, endangering many, and making many parts of our ocean uninhabitable for some creatures. This is a huge problem, we dump and throw trash into our ocean thinking nothing of it. However sea inhabitants will get caught or consume our trash and die. Animals are being killed and in the millions by our hand, just because ...

Environmental pollution could be one of the greatest challenges that most of the countries facing especially the developing countries. Malaysia is known as a developing country where rapid transformation takes place in the various form. As a result, we could see that people often neglect the causes of their action in coming days. Environmental pollution is one of the famous topics that is being discussed from the young to the older generation. Environmental pollution is famous among the cities ...

Plastic pollution in the ocean is a big issue in today’s society. Soon there will be a time when we can’t reverse our actions and it could be the end of all of our ocean systems and it will also damage land environments. 10 million tons of plastic are dispersed into our oceans annually. Plastic is affecting more than just our ecosystems, some people are living in places filled with trash all around them. These living environments are not healthy for anyone and no one should have to live like ...