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Soil contamination, soil pollution, or land pollution as a part of land degradation is caused by the presence of xenobiotic (human-made) chemicals or other alteration in the natural soil environment.
Soil health is a state of a soil meeting its range of ecosystem functions as appropriate to its environment. In more colloquial terms, the health of soil arises from favorable interactions of all soil components (living and non-living) that belong together, as in microbiota, plants and animals.
Various definitions of pollution exist, which may or may not recognize certain types, such as noise pollution or greenhouse gases.The United States Environmental Protection Administration defines pollution as "Any substances in water, soil, or air that degrade the natural quality of the environment, offend the senses of sight, taste, or smell, or cause a health hazard.
Air pollution is the presence of substances in the atmosphere that are harmful to humans and other living beings, or cause damage to the environment. Air pollution can be chemical, physical or biological. [1]
Thermal pollution, sometimes called "thermal enrichment", is the degradation of water quality by any process that changes ambient water temperature.Thermal pollution is the rise or drop in the temperature of a natural body of water caused by human influence.
Visual pollution is the degradation of the visual environment due to unattractive or disruptive elements that negatively impact the aesthetic quality of an area. It can affect urban, suburban, and natural landscapes. [1]
The same week she helped draw an astounding 18.9 million television viewers for that title game (South Carolina 87, Iowa 75), not to mention tickets soaring above $2,000 on the secondary ticket ...
Baker–Nunn cameras were widely used to study space debris.. The lack of hard data about space debris prompted a series of studies to better characterize the LEO environment.