Pollution continues to harm environment

Posted November 2020

By Farhiya Mohammed

Cub Reporter

Pollution is the beginning of harmful materials into the environment.

Humans are harmed by pollution. Pollutants can damage the quality of air and water in the environment. Pollution can kill humans. For example, it can lead to chronic respiratory disease, lung cancer, and other types of diseases. There are only about 1 billion people who have access to clean water, and 2.4 billion who don’t have adequate sanitation, putting them at risk of contracting deadly diseases.

Air pollution can damage trees, as well as forest soils. The causes of air pollution continue to be the burning of fossil fuels, industrial emissions, wildfires, transportation exhaust, open burning of garbage waste, and construction and demolition dust . Air pollution can also create acid rain which causes respiratory health problems for human beings and animals. Nitrogen can harm fish and other aquatic life when deposited on surface waters. Because of water pollution, harmful chemicals can pollute lakes, oceans, rivers, and other bodies of water. Due to waste and chemicals, fish and other animal lives are at stake.

“Microplastics can alter the behavior of fish, with those that ingest the pollutants to be bolder, most active and swim in risky areas where they die en mass, according to a new study,” reported The Guardian.