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96.6
The Great Garbage Swirl
(Rated 11 times)
This dry, windless area is dominated by the Northern Pacific Gyre, a wind current that encircles an area twice the size of the continental United States. This ribbon o...
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94.7
Deforestation
(Rated 10 times)
Deforestation is the logging or burning of trees in forested areas. There are several reasons for doing so: trees or derived charcoal can be sold as a commodity and ar...
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91.6
Dumping Hazardous Wastes
(Rated 5 times)
USA chemical companies and the military dumped 80-85% of their wastes into nearby pits, ponds and rivers, resulting in cancers and other diseases (Love Canal). 50,000 ...
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91.2
Smog
(Rated 4 times)
Smog is a kind of air pollution; the word "smog" is a portmanteau of smoke and fog. Classic smog results from large amounts of coal burning in an area caused by a mixt...
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87.5
Automobiles
(Rated 6 times)
The impact of the automobile and the auto-centered transport system on the American environment has been enormous. From the manufacturing process to the junkyard, cars...
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73.9
China's Resource Consumption
(Rated 12 times)
At the rate China is producing, another earth will be required in 2030 to sustain their growth.
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71.2
Overpopulation
(Rated 8 times)
Overpopulation is a condition where an organism's numbers exceed the carrying capacity of its habitat. In common parlance, the term usually refers to the relationship ...
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71.0
Chemical Pollution
(Rated 7 times)
Chemical wastes from industry have been dumped in hundreds of thousands of sites, often illegally. The cleanup effort is going much more slowly than anticipated. Chemi...
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71.0
Private Jets
(Rated 5 times)
Private jets are an unjust and ultimately harmful method of transportation. A single take-off can produce more harmful pollutants than 100 cars driving 200 miles in th...
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68.0
Mining
(Rated 3 times)
mining: By 1980 about 10% of Japanese rice paddies had become unsuitable for human production due to Cadmium poisoning of the soil. Polish Silesia showed unhealthy con...
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67.5
CO2
(Rated 11 times)
It has increased to 0.035% (350 ppm) due to human use of fossil fuels. The use of fossil fuel currently accounts for 80 to 85% of the carbon dioxide being added to the...
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67.4
Acid Rain
(Rated 5 times)
85% of the lakes in the Adirondack Mountains have been acidified by industry. Acid deposition of sulphates and nitrates has made thousands of lakes in Scandinavia and ...
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60.6
Light Pollution
(Rated 10 times)
It obscures the stars in the night sky for city dwellers, interferes with astronomical observatories, and, like any other form of pollution, disrupts ecosystems and ha...
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38.7
Wood heat
(Rated 3 times)
Hey, you see that old, unused fire place? Or better, yet, wood stove? Why not go out and buy some wood, through it in there and set it on fire.
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29.0
Nuclear power
(Rated 7 times)
It's cheap and virtually endless electricity, particularly suitable for resource poor countries like France and Japan, unfortunately Nuclear Power plants produce the p...
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