Pollution

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==== My name is Charlotta Salminen (as we already explained on our home page) and I come from Finland. I chose to study about pollution for these 6 to 8 weeks. ==== ==== I chose my topic because I have noticed that I am part of the wasting and polluting. Sometimes i dont sort my trash well, or sometimes i throw my gum in the nature, without thinking that it all adds up. ====

====Environmental stewardship is the management of nature & the environment around us. Not wasting food or throwing trash outside or in the environment is a good example of environmental stewardship. Another example is pollution. Pollution is something that is made by factories that produce electricity, plastic etc. This pollution gets to the nature (water, land, air) and spoils it. Pollution like plastic wraps and cans are thrown away and then transported to a large area called a landfill. Then it becomes necessary to store it somewhere for millions of years or just leave the pollution there, harming the nature, doing nothing to it because people haven’t thought of doing anything else with it and they just can’t do anything else with pollution. ====

**And we also needed to make three questions that we thought were the most important and interesting to find information and to share to the school. ** **These are the questions I found the most important and innteresting: **

**1. Is pollution connected to any other world wide issues? **  Pollution is a factor in many world wide issues.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When people <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**cut down trees** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, they are not really thinking about what they´re doing because trees convert carbon dioxide into oxygen. Oxygen is what we humans breath. And if people keep on cutting trees at the speed they are doing it today, the speed the trees convert carbon dioxide into oxygen will not be fast enough to get oxygen into the air for the whole world population to breath. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #38761d; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**(source #2)**


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This situation becomes even worse with the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**acid rain** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (caused by the human pollution) Tiny particles of acid combine with rain drops or snow flakes falling from the sky. This acid rain harms nature. It also makes plants and trees die, poisons the soil and can also change the chemistry of rivers and lakes. This decreases the production of oxygen. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #38761d; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**(source #2)**


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pollution also causes the greenhouse effect ( <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Global warming** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">). The pollution gathers up as a thick cloud, and when the warmth of the sunlight comes into the earth’s gravity it becomes trapped and can’t get out because of the pollution cloud. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #38761d; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**(source #2)**


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pollution can affect the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**health of** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> many <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**people** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. In China the air they breath every day equals the amount of pollution that 2 packs of cigarettes produce.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 2. What techniques are being developed to effectively decrease pollution? ALMOST DONE! ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">People have developed their ideas and techniques to find out an effective way to decrease the pollution on the earth.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">environmentally friendly and small <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**“hybrid power plant”** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, invented by a research team in the U.S.A. The manager of the group is from the Texas´s University might be reclaimed already in 20 years


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The hybrid power plant is called: Compact Fusion Neutron Source (CFNS) hybrid power plant


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There is fuel fusion floating in the air letting neutrons loose at the same time. Those loose neutrons break the waste from the nuclear plant which is placed in a capsule around it


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The hybrid power plant chops 80% of the nuclear waste up


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the rest 20% of the nuclear waste will be burned by cutting it up with the neutron from the fusion (Fusion: When two or more light atoms join together to become heavier)

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. How is pollution affecting the nature? ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Pollution is affecting nature negatively.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">pollution is a factor in <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**global warming** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (greenhouse affect) Pollution in the air gathers into a thick cloud, and so when the warmth of the sunlight comes to the earth’s gravity it gets trapped. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #38761d; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**(Source #2, and others)**


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Global warming follows up to that by 2016 the ice caps will melt. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #38761d; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**(Source #2)**


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Oil spills** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> are a type of pollution that kills marine life, birds, and harms the water <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #38761d; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**(Source #3)**


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There will not be any <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**drink able water** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> in China by 2014 anymore, if we keep on polluting the water by throwing our waste/trash in it <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #38761d; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**(Source #4)**


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pollution can affect the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**health of** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> many <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**people** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. In China the air they breath every day

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">has the amount of pollution that 2 packs of cigarettes produce. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #38761d; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**(source #4)**


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Frogs can <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">get(have) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">deformations (spare arms, legs) caused by the waste from manufacturing that has gotten into nature. (Magazine: Tieteenkuvalehti)


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pollution also disturbs the health of animals. Oil spills are a type of pollution.They kill many birds, fish and other marine life.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Even whales can die from eating the plastic bags, that they think are food to eat. The plastic bags get stuck to their intestine and so they die. (TV Program)


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This situation becomes even worse with the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**acid rain** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (caused from the human pollution) (Tiny particles of acid combine with rain drops or snow flakes falling from the sky. This acid rain harms nature. It also makes plants and trees die, poisons the soil and can also change the chemistry of rivers and lakes. This decreases the production of oxygen. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #38761d; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**(source #2)**


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In the Pacific Ocean there is a trash carpet that is estimated to be the size of Texas and <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">is <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">still growing


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Land pollution can cause various types of cancer


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Pollution from factories can form spare body formations on many animals when it gets to the nature


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Types of land pollution:


 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chemical and nuclear plants
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Manufacturing factories
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Oil Refineries
 * 4) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Human sewage
 * 5) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Oil and antifreeze leaking from cars
 * 6) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">mining
 * 7) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Littering
 * 8) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Overcrowded landfills
 * 9) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Deforestation
 * 10) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Construction debris

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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">** How does this make you feel? **


 * __ My Bibliogrqaphy __**

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> "Landfills: Environmental Problems." <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//The Landfill Site// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. IPPTS Accosiates, 9 Apr. 2011. Web. 11 Apr. 2011. <http://www.landfill-site.com/html/landfills__environmental_probl.php>.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory. "Indoor and Outdoor Pollution." <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory's Projects ELSI// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Apr. 2011<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">.<http://www.lbl.gov /Education/ELSI/pollution-main.html>.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> "WASTE." <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//WASTE - WASTE// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, 2011. Web. 11 Apr. 2011. <http://www.waste.nl/>.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Ways to Prevent Water Pollution." <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//Ways To Prevent Water Pollution// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.Buzzle.com, 2011. Web. 13 Apr. 2011. <http://www.buzzle.com/articles/ways-to-prevent-water-pollution.html>.