Environmental Problems

Our environment is constantly changing. There is no denying that. However, as our environment changes, so does the need to become increasingly aware of the problems that surround it. With a massive influx of natural disasters, warming and cooling periods,

Global warming has become an undisputed fact about our current livelihoods; our planet is warming up and we are definitely part of the problem. people are facing a wealth of new and challenging environmental problems every day. Some of them are small and only affect a few ecosystems, but others are drastically changing the landscape.

Major Current Environmental Problem

 Pollution: Pollution of air, water and soil require millions of years to recoup. Industry and motor vehicle exhaust are the number one pollutants. Heavy metals, nitrates, and plastic are toxins responsible for pollution. While water pollution is caused by oil spill, acid rain, urban runoff; air pollution is caused by various gases and toxins released by industries and factories and combustion of fossil fuels; soil pollution is majorly caused by industrial waste that deprives soil from essential nutrients. 

Global Warming: Climate changes like global warming is the result of human practices like emission of Greenhouse gases. Global warming leads to rising temperatures of the oceans and the earth’ surface causing melting of polar ice caps, rise in sea levels and also unnatural patterns of precipitation such as flash floods, excessive snow or desertification.

 Overpopulation: The population of the planet is reaching unsustainable levels as it faces shortage of resources like water, fuel and food. The population explosion in less developed and developing countries is straining.the already scarce resources.

chemical fertilizer, pesticides and insecticides. Overpopulation is one of the crucial current environmental problems.

Natural Resource Depletion: Natural resource depletion is another crucial current environmental problems. Fossil fuel consumption results in an emission of Greenhouse gases, which is responsible for global warming and climate change. 

Waste Disposal: The over-consumption of resources and creation of plastics are creating a global crisis of waste disposal. Developed countries are notorious for producing an excessive amount of waste or garbage and dumping their waste in the oceans and, less developed countries. Nuclear waste disposal has tremendous health hazards associated with it. Plastic, fast food, packaging and cheap electronic wastes threaten the well being of humans. Waste disposal is one of urgent current environmental problem.

Climate Change: Climate change is yet another environmental problem that has surfaced in last couple of decades. It occurs due to a rise in global warming which occurs due to the increase in temperature of the atmosphere by burning of fossil fuels and release of harmful gases by industries.

Loss of Biodiversity: Human activity is leading to the extinction of species and habitats and loss of biodiversity. Ecosystems, Balance of natural processes like pollination is crucial to the survival of the eco-system and human activity threatens the same. 

Deforestation: Our forests are natural sinks of carbon dioxide and produce fresh oxygen as well as helps in regulating temperature and rainfall.due to the growing population demand for more food, shelter and cloth. Deforestation simply means clearing of green cover and make that land available for the residential, industrial or commercial purpose.

Ozone Layer Depletion:The ozone layer is an invisible layer of protection around the planet that protects us from the sun’s harmful rays. Depletion of the crucial Ozone layer of the atmosphere is attributed to pollution 

Acid Rain: Acid rain occurs due to the presence of certain pollutants in the atmosphere. Acid rain can be caused due to the combustion of fossil fuels or erupting volcanoes or rotting vegetation which releases sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides into the atmosphere

 Water Pollution: Clean drinking water is becoming a rare commodity. Water is becoming an economic and political issue as the human population fights for this resource. the process of desalinization. Industrial development is filling our rivers seas and oceans with toxic pollutants which are a major threat to human health.

Public Health Issues:  The current environmental problems pose a lot of risk to the health of humans, and animals. rivers carry along toxins, chemicals and disease-carrying organisms. Pollutants cause respiratory diseases like Asthma and cardiac-vascular problems. High temperatures encourage the spread of infectious diseases like Dengue.