Pollution

Microplastics, as the name implies, are tiny plastic particles. Officially, they are defined as plastics less than five millimeters (0.2 inches) in diameter--smaller in diameter than the standard pear…

As our world industrializes further, we are faced with perhaps the foremost problem our civilization has ever faced: the degradation of earth itself. Our forests are becoming smaller, our water source…

The oceans make up more than 70% of Earth and it is important to keep the oceans clean. Unfortunately, that is not the case, the oceans have been suffering from a growing number of plastic pollution s…

Millions of cars take commuters to work and school daily all over the world. Over the past century, automobiles have played a critical role in the modernization of nations, as well as the transformati…

Can you believe that people in Jubail industrial city breathe polluted air every day? One of the biggest problems in the Jubail industrial city, my city is it contains a lot of chemical factories and …

Hydraulic fracturing (fracking), is a drilling method used to extract petroleum (oil) or natural gas from deep in the Earth. To do this a pipe is dug and a combination of water, chemicals, and sand ar…

I watched as a middle aged man threw his rotten apple core on the ground. I learned that this is called littering. Even as a kid, I was infuriated by his actions. I was triggered by how the man carele…

Environmental pollution has been a hot topic for decades across the world and people are constantly looking for ways to reduce their negative impacts on the environment. Every country faces pollutants…

Recently there has been a contentious debate over the topic of banning or keeping plastic water bottles. Many people think bottled water is convenient because it is easy to carry and it is affordable,…

Black water contaminating clear water, animals in agony, pollution spreading. More than 80 percent of human waste is released into the world´s bodies of water without proper treatment. This fact hurts…