Types Of Pollution

A big environmental issue today is pollution. Although there are others kinds of pollution, the three main types are air, land, and water pollution. Air pollution is caused by vehicles and factories releasing harmful gases into the air. This kind of pollution is causes by humans when they construct buildings, use different forms of transportation, grow crops, and more. Although, natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions and wildfires also pollute the air, they only pollute the air where the event occurred. Man-made pollution pollutes every single day of our lives, all around the world. In comparison, land pollution is the destruction of earth’s surface due to human activities. It causes the land to become less fertile for agriculture and anything else. There are many ways people mistreat our planet. Some examples are deforestation, agriculture, and overflowing landfills. Lastly, water pollution is caused because of chemicals that may have leaked in to water, or metal compounds which causes a risk for the lives of aquatic creatures. Any body of water can become polluted because of toxic chemicals.

Pollution harms the balance between organisms in ecosystems, which creates problems for us all. It generates harmful materials to distribute into the environment, causing many food webs and food chains to die.

Air pollution is releasing gases into the atmosphere and theses gases are called greenhouse gases. The gases are getting trapped in the ozone layer of Earth and causing