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    pollution long after the source of the pollution is stopped. Major forms of pollution include air pollution, water pollution, litter, noise pollution...
    74 KB (8,629 words) - 01:47, 22 June 2024
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    Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved...
    22 KB (3,638 words) - 06:28, 7 July 2024
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    Freshwater biology is the scientific biological study of freshwater ecosystems and is a branch of limnology. This field seeks to understand the relationships...
    23 KB (2,820 words) - 19:18, 31 May 2024
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    nutrient pollution) Silt (sediment) in runoff from construction sites or sewage, logging, slash and burn practices or land clearing sites. Salt: Freshwater salinization...
    58 KB (8,388 words) - 09:32, 22 June 2024
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    Plastic pollution Plastic pollution is the accumulation of plastic objects and particles (e.g. plastic bottles, bags and microbeads) in the Earth's environment...
    185 KB (19,745 words) - 00:46, 10 July 2024
  • conditions associated with them. Threats to freshwater biodiversity include overexploitation, water pollution, flow modification, destruction or degradation...
    17 KB (2,911 words) - 10:32, 2 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Air pollution
    Air pollution is the contamination of air due to the presence of substances called pollutants in the atmosphere that are harmful to the health of humans...
    230 KB (23,437 words) - 22:39, 8 July 2024
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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...
    39 KB (4,767 words) - 20:20, 22 June 2024
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    Light pollution is the presence of any unwanted, inappropriate, or excessive artificial lighting. In a descriptive sense, the term light pollution refers...
    146 KB (15,606 words) - 13:36, 11 July 2024
  • Freshwater bivalves are one kind of freshwater mollusc, along with freshwater snails. They are bivalves that live in fresh water as opposed to salt water...
    23 KB (2,676 words) - 01:20, 31 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Marine pollution
    Marine pollution occurs when substances used or spread by humans, such as industrial, agricultural and residential waste, particles, noise, excess carbon...
    79 KB (11,043 words) - 00:42, 10 July 2024
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    Noise pollution, or sound pollution, is the propagation of noise or sound with ranging impacts on the activity of human or animal life, most of which...
    100 KB (11,203 words) - 18:27, 21 June 2024
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    varieties tend to be larger (usually, Astacus astacus), rampant freshwater pollution and years of overfishing largely limit availability to imports—most...
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    for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973 as modified by the Protocol of 1978, or "MARPOL 73/78" (short for "marine pollution") is one of the most...
    31 KB (2,339 words) - 00:47, 11 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Aquatic ecosystem
    main types of aquatic ecosystems are marine ecosystems and freshwater ecosystems. Freshwater ecosystems may be lentic (slow moving water, including pools...
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  • Thumbnail for Nonpoint source pollution
    Nonpoint source (NPS) pollution refers to diffuse contamination (or pollution) of water or air that does not originate from a single discrete source....
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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...
    7 KB (697 words) - 06:23, 9 June 2024
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    Marine plastic pollution is a type of marine pollution by plastics, ranging in size from large original material such as bottles and bags, down to microplastics...
    159 KB (18,954 words) - 22:53, 7 July 2024
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    pollution is the rise or drop in the temperature of a natural body of water caused by human influence. Thermal pollution, unlike chemical pollution,...
    25 KB (2,689 words) - 12:02, 2 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Groundwater pollution
    Groundwater pollution (also called groundwater contamination) occurs when pollutants are released to the ground and make their way into groundwater. This...
    83 KB (9,454 words) - 15:13, 26 May 2024
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