Types of Pollution: A Visual Journey by Олена Андрієнко

Light Pollution

frauandrienko12 — 2024-03-04 07:39:45 UTC

Light pollution is the excessive or misdirected artificial light. It disrupts ecosystems, wastes energy, and obscures our view of the night sky. Its sources include street lamps, billboards, and outdoor lighting of buildings.

Air pollution

2025-02-19 15:31:44 UTC

Air pollution is the presence in the atmosphere of harmful substances that negatively affect the health of people, animals, plants and the environment in general.

The main sources of pollution:

Industry (emissions from factories, power plants).

Transport (exhaust gases from cars, airplanes).

Agriculture (ammonia, pesticides, burning of stubble).

Household sources (heating, use of chemicals).

Consequences of pollution:

Diseases of the respiratory and cardiovascular systems.

Acid rain, which destroys soils and water bodies.

Greenhouse effect and climate change.

Batazhova Samaya.

deforestation

2025-02-20 07:22:34 UTC

Forests cover a third of the entire land surface of our planet, but at the current rate of deforestation, we may lose most of this invaluable cover in the near future. Trees play a vital role in the carbon cycle: they absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen, which prevents a sharp increase in global temperatures and provides the oxygen that all living things need to breathe. Forests are the habitat of more than two thirds of birds and all land animals

consequences:

• climate change;

• environmental pollution;

• ecosystem change;

• destruction of a large number of plants;

• animals are forced to leave their usual habitats;

• deterioration of the atmosphere;

• deterioration of the water cycle in nature;

• soil destruction, which will lead to soil erosion;

• the emergence of ecological refugees