MARINE POLLUTION Between 1976 and 1996 a total of 4647 incidents resulted in the spill of approximately 2‚369‚470 barrels of oil into the environment. In addition‚ between 1997 and 2001‚ Nigeria also recorded a total number of 2‚097 oil spill incidents. Nigeria’s largest spill was an offshore well-blow out in January 1980 when an estimated 200‚000 barrels of oil (8.4million US gallons) spilled into the Atlantic Ocean from an oil industry facility and that damaged 340 hectares of mangrove (Nwilo
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Dioxin is one of the most toxic chemicals known. A report released for public comment in September 1994 by the US Environmental Protection Agency clearly describes dioxin as a serious public health threat. The public health impact of dioxin may rival the impact that DDT had on public health in the 1960’s. According to the EPA report‚ not only does there appear to be no "safe" level of exposure to dioxin‚ but levels of dioxin and dioxin-like chemicals have been found in the general US population
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powerful voice for a cause or a movement. When I watched Woody Guthrie singing “This Land Is Your Land”‚ it reminded me of the whole debate about immigration today‚ and how this country is everybody’s land. Woody Guthrie‚ was singing back in the 60’s‚ he gave a voice to those who were frustrated with the policies of their government‚ but I could feel the same passion today that they felt. When he sings “This land was made for you and me”. It really hit home‚ and I felt like nothing could express that
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Air pollution is caused by the presence of chemicals‚ particulate matter‚ or biological materials in the air which harms humans and other living organisms. It can also damage the natural environment. Air pollution causes depletion of ozone in the stratosphere which endangers human health as well as the Earth’s ecosystems. Air pollutants can be in the form of solid particles‚ liquid droplets‚ or gases. They could be natural or man-made. Pollutants can be classified as either primary or secondary
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Aaron Millsap J. Dunn Eng. 201 7/20/2010 This Land is Your Land The term “American” has always been loved and hated by every country in the world. Foreigners that legally immigrate to the United States need to have a reason. Do immigrants do so because they want a better life for their families‚ a place that you don’t have to worry about bombs exploding‚ or if you speak up you put your life at risk? Being an American means that you want to practice and protect freedom because the conditions
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Air pollution is a major environmental health problem affecting the developing and the developed countries alike. The effects of air pollution on health are very complex as there are many different sources and their individual effects vary from one to the other. It is not only the ambient air quality in the cities but also the indoor air quality in the rural and the urban areas that are causing concern. In fact in the developing world the highest air pollution exposures occur in the indoor environment
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SOUND POLLUTION NOISE CONTROL Noise has the potential to impact on us all every day‚ in different ways. Any form of noise can be considered pollution if it causes annoyance‚ sleeplessness‚ fright‚ or any other stress reaction. noise is transient; once it stops‚ the environment is free of it we can measure individual sounds that may damage human hearing‚ but it is difficult to monitor cumulative exposure to noise or to determine just how much is too much the definition of noise itself is highly
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B.Tech.-IV (CHEMICAL) 7th SEMESTER SCHEME FOR TEACHING AND EXAMINATION CS: Core Subject Sr. No. ES: Elective Subject (from Department) Course Code Teaching Scheme Hours per Week Credits Examination Scheme Theory L 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Chemical Reaction Engineering-II (CS-1) Instrumentation and Process Control (CS-2) Process Equipment Design and Drawing (CS-3) Transport Phenomena (CS-4) ES-1** Seminar Project Preliminaries Total Marks Practicals
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Causes and Effects of Water Pollution Public Service Announcement for Pollution What are the causes of water pollution? This question has no simple answer. Water pollution can be defined as anything humans do to cause harmful effects to our bodies of water. This can include pollution of rivers‚ lakes‚ oceans‚ and ground water pollution. The causes of pollution in the water are virtually endless. Manufacturing plants are major causes of water pollution‚ using bodies of fresh water to carry away
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City Vatican City have very less population because of this they live very relax fully and they have no problems of crops and even they do not have to cut forests and not to make industries. Pollution by Population Day-by-day the population is increasing and with this pollution is also increasing. When the population increases the demand of cars is also increasing for travel long distance or going their village. Oxygen is also decreasing because when the trees are cut by the forest
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