Soil Pollution Causes

This means that the available land is under stress to develop food for the higher population, meaning that the land is over-cultivated and so aids soil erosion. For example, intensive cultivation of land in the soya plantations in South America can lead to overcropping. In South America, the soil is fertilised, although the use of chemical fertilisers Is not advantageous to the land as much as manure is. Due to the overuse of fertiliser and the underuse of manure, the soil structure gradually becomes more damaged due to the effects of overcropping. The effects caused by overcropping can be lowered through the use of organic manure, i.e cattle dung, to the soil through irrigation.

Soil is also being affected by Agriculture and affecting family farms leading to high suicides and contaminated soils. Farmers are trying to grow crops in areas that aren’t usually suitable for growing, and applying toxic pesticides and fertilizer to help the crops grow. Farmers are going out of business due to lack of money, getting sick from the toxic stuff companies are giving farmers. Now we are seeing more industrial farming and causing more harm for us and the

The Pseudomonas fluorescens strain are quite effective in the bioremediation of toxicants like phenols, pesticides and heavy metals. One the greatest concerns to farmers and agriculturists is the increasing amount of damage that is being caused to plants (crops) by the used of pesticides heavy metal fertilizers. Not only that, these fertilizers seep into water bodies and pollute them. This soil bacterium is useful in fighting pollution both in ground and in water. The fact that it feeds on carbons and can live with minimum nutrition added to the fact that it breaks down heavy metal compounds in soils to insoluble and less harmful compounds helps us to effectively battle water pollution.

With any change comes consequences, good and bad. The negative side of our society eating plant based is that more and more heavy pesticides will have to be applied in order to yield enough crop to sustain human populations. With heavy chemicals being used this damages our environment as well. A negative side of creating legal requirements for farms is that there are ways around these rules or loop holes so to speak. I do believe however, that the good outways the bad in this situation.

Nutrient pollution coming from agricultural runoff and other fertilizers allows for the growth of species that upset the balance of the ecosystem such as Cattail, harmful algae bloom, and duckweed. The sulfur in the agricultural fertilizers leads to accumulation of toxic mercury in fish, birds, and mammals. Also, exotic animals or invasive species displaced native and threatens to disrupt the ecosystem balance. The purpose of this experiment is to determine how the water quality affects the Everglades ecosystem and how water pollution impacts different species. Urbanization is a big threat that contributes to poor water quality in water pollution.

When deforestation is committed, the green cover which helps in balancing the atmosphere is reduced and it leads to natural disasters such as global warming, flash floods and green house effect. The animal kingdom is also suffered as the habitat destruction caused by land clearing in such a way that their natural habitat is lost for human’s benefits. Animals are being forced to move further away and adapt new regions or die

This absence of oxygen allows the plant debris to persist. In addition, insects and other organisms that might decay the plant debris on land do not endure well under water in an oxygen-deficient environment. To form the thick layer of plant debris required to products a coal seam, the rate of plant debris accumulation must be more than the rate of decay. Once a thick layer of plant debris is molded, sediments such as mud or sand must

Although A. fulica can have a negative effect to humans as it feeds on the crops of farmers, resulting in a loss in crops available for the farmers to sell. Additionally, when the A. fulica dies it can cause pollution to the soil around it since its body is composed of calcium carbonate which when left in the soil can change the soil

Introduction Aim: To compare the effectiveness of compost and earthworms on the germination and yield of a spinach crop. Motivation: Fertilisers are mixture of chemicals that add nutrients to the soil to establish better yielding crops (Berger, 2013). Though these products have proved to provide many beneficial aspects to the agricultural sector, they have many negative environmental consequences. Fertilisers contain many substances, including mostly potassium, phosphorus, sulphur, calcium, magnesium and nitrogen. These substances, when they accumulate in the soil, can have harmful side effects on the environment and subsequently on the productivity of crops (Vimpany and Lines-Kelly, 2004).

Fertilizers remove the nutrients of the soil damaging the soil and the local environment and after being mixed with the soil, gradually reduce the fertility of the soil. In the study of (Southland) using fertilizers consists of substances and chemicals like methane, carbon dioxide, ammonia, and nitrogen, the emission of which has contributed to a great extent in the quantity of greenhouse gases present in the environment. These facts are alarming and a serious step needs to be taken as soon as possible to avoid more severe consequences. This in turn is leading to global warming and weather changes. The use of fertilizers for growth and cultivation is keeping our stomach filled for now, but then if things keep on progressing the way they are, it won’t take long to see the times where there is lack of food, water, and health.