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…Land degradation in Australia is a very serious and difficult environmental problem, as Australia is dependent on agricultural practices. (See land use in Australia.) Urban sprawl, land pollution, salinisation, and soil erosion may cause Land…

…Smog is just fog that has been polluted by hydroscopic nuclei, which contains chemicals and fumes. This makes the fog thicker and denser as there are far more particles. The atmospheric hydrocarbons from human activity account for only 15% of the total…

…Acid Rain--A Contemporary World Problem Acid rain is one of the most dangerous and widespread forms of pollution. Sometimes called "the unseen plague," acid rain can go undetected in an area for years. Technically, acid rain is rain that has a larger…

…for industry and business that suffers from high urbanization and pollution. It is this extreme difference in both climate and scenery that makes Vancouver seem like a pleasant dream, compared to the nightmare that is Hong Kong. The mountainous forests…

…improved the water clarity of Lake Erie. The filtering of water may increase the exposure humans and animals have to organic pollutants. Early studies have shown that the zebra mussel can accumulate organic pollutants in their tissue to more then 300,000…

…environments. Populations drive their cars, smoke their cigarettes, dump huge amounts of garbage in landfills instead of recycling most of it, and pollute the land in so many other ways. Suzuki mentions that the "Great Lakes, which contain 20% of [the] world's fresh…

…is the diversion of 90 percent of the Jordan River for usage in Israel, Jordan, and Syria. The subsequent problem is pollution and the development of hotels, spas, and solar evaporation ponds in the local area around the Dead Sea. The last, but certainly not least…

…Acid Rain--A Contemporary World Problem Acid rain is one of the most dangerous and widespread forms of pollution. Sometimes called "the unseen plague," acid rain can go undetected in an area for years. Technically, acid rain is rain that has a larger…

…on NAFTA are labor costs, illegal immigrant’s and environmental problems (pollution). When NAFTA went into effect about half of the agricultural products had the tariffs cut immediately, but import important items- orange juice, corn, beans, and sugar etc…

…ROOT CAUSES OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS · Population growth · Abuse of resources · pollution The United States is the fastest growing industrialized country in the world, now increasing by approximately three million people per year. At this rate…