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  2. List of pollution-related diseases - Wikipedia

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    Diseases caused by pollution, lead to the chronic illness and deaths of about 8.4 million people each year. However, pollution receives a fraction of the interest from the global community. [1] This is in part because pollution causes so many diseases that it is often difficult to draw a straight line between cause and effect.

  3. Environmental disease - Wikipedia

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    Environmental diseases are a direct result from the environment. Meanwhile, pollution-related diseases are attributed to exposure to toxicants or toxins in the air, water, and soil. Therefore, all pollution-related disease are environmental diseases, but not all environmental diseases are pollution-related diseases. [2]

  4. Human impact on the environment - Wikipedia

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    Artificial light at night is one of the most obvious physical changes that humans have made to the biosphere, and is the easiest form of pollution to observe from space. [297] The main environmental impacts of artificial light are due to light's use as an information source (rather than an energy source).

  5. Environmental epidemiology - Wikipedia

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    Environmental epidemiology is a branch of epidemiology concerned with determining how environmental exposures impact human health. [1] This field seeks to understand how various external risk factors may predispose to or protect against disease, illness, injury, developmental abnormalities, or death.

  6. Glossary of environmental science - Wikipedia

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    noise pollution (environmental noise) - displeasing human or machine created sound that disrupts the activity or happiness of human or animal life. nonpoint source pollution - water pollution affecting a water body from diffuse sources, rather than a point source which discharges to a water body at a single location.

  7. The Surprising Relationship Between Oral Health and IBD - AOL

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    Plus, “more than half of the bacteria in the human body resides in the GI tract and the oral cavity,” Campbell says. In fact, 29% resides in your gut and 26% resides in your mouth.

  8. Environmental hazard - Wikipedia

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    Environmental hazards are those hazards that affect biomes or ecosystems. [1] Well known examples include oil spills, water pollution, slash and burn deforestation, air pollution, ground fissures, [2] and build-up of atmospheric carbon dioxide. [3] Physical exposure to environmental hazards is usually involuntary [3]

  9. Judge asks if Diddy retroactively wrote 'Legal' on his jail ...

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    The judge in Sean "Diddy" Combs' sex-trafficking case has questions about the rap mogul's notepads. Someone wrote "Legal" on the pads in the days after prison officials took evidence photos of them.