My article was from ScienceDaily and it explained what environmental pollution is and how it can have adverse affects on our health and our environment. Environmental pollution is the release of environmental contaminants, generally resulting from human activity. Pollutants can cause disease, including cancer, lupus, immune diseases, allergies, and asthma. Bad air quality can kill many organisms including humans. Motor vehicle emissions are one of the leading causes of air pollution. I learned that ozone pollution can cause respiratory disease, cardiovascular disease, throat inflammation, chest pain, and congestion. Also, water pollution causes nearly 14,000 deaths everyday,due to contamination of drinking water by untreated sewage in our developing countries. In addition, oil spills can cause skin irritations and rashes and noise pollution can cause hearing loss, high blood pressure, stress, and sleep disturbance. What I take from this article is that pollution is a very scary thing and we need do we can as individuals to help reduce pollution in our environment.
