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Deforestation
About half of the world's tropical forests have been cleared and according to WWF, now about 36 football fields worth of trees lost every minute.These problems have occurred around the world, because of human activities such as making more land for housing and urbanization. -
Yokkaichi Asthma
Yokkaichi Disaster is a very famous as a "the city of Petroleum" in Japan. This city, Yokkaichi is now producing nearly one fourth of the total output of Japan;s petroleum and petrochemical industries. This disaster was occurred due to the transformation of energy production from coal to oil and that oil used in Yokkaichi contained sulfur containing compound. More then six hundred patients with respiratory diseases were found in the city between 1960 and 1969. -
Global Warming
Average of global temperatures have increased by 1.4F over the last century due to the burning of coal, oil, or gas. These kinds of human activity causes more greenhouse gases which effect naturally keeps our planet warm enough to be livable to build up in the atmosphere. -
Chernobyl Accident
Chernobyl Disaster was happened at 1:23 am within the chernobyl nuclear power plant at Ukraine. 31 of workers died shortly afterwards, but we don't know actual number of people that had died because of radioactive. The disaster was occurred while testing the back up cooling system, and there was an unexpected power surge and the reactor exploded. In addition, the technicians who tested the reactor was no specialists in nuclear reactors, they were specialists in electric generators. -
P.M.2.5
It is a type of pollution involving fine particles less than 2.5 microns in diameter. On 30 November, Beijing in china issued an orange alert which is the second highest of the four-tier system adopted in 2013. According to Correspondents, Chinese officials had been unwilling to commit to hard targets on reducing carbon emission. China is still depending on a coal for more than 60% of its power.
