Types of pollution

There are many different types of pollution. The three main types of pollution are: air pollution, water pollution and soil pollution. All these types of pollution are caused by man but there are a few things that come into pollution caused by nature.

Air pollution:

Air pollution occurs when there is an excessive amount in the earths air of products like gases, dust fumes or other particals that can be harmful . substances that cause air pollution are called pollutants. 

Air pollution effects your health greatly if you are breathing in air that contains harmful particals. Cities like Los Angeles, Mexico City, and New York City contain a very high amount of pollution in the air. Young children and elderly are particularly effected by air pollution. Many effects of air pollution are long term such as lung cancer, heart disease, damage to the brain, nerves and other parts of the body.

                     

Water pollution:

The oil from the spill also reached this little birds nest.

All water pollution is caused by man. Everyday garbage is being dumped into rivers and oceans, factories are emptying out chemicals into water, ships transporting oil are spilling oil into water and many other things are polluting our water. The polluted water might not be affecting humans but it is having a very big impact on the organisms that live in that water that is getting destroyed. Fish get caught in the trash that is being dumped into the water, animals like turtles and dolphins get caught in soda rings.

A seagull cover in oil from the BP oil spill.

Oil spills like the BP oil spill killed many fish and the oil from the spill went into the stomachs of many dolphins, turtles and other organisms that lived in the Gulf Of Mexico. This spill caused 8,000 birds, sea turtles and many other mammals. Alot of the oil washed up on beaches and polluted the beaches. Because i used to live in Florida at the time of the BP oil spill I know from personal experience, that many people that lived close to the beaches in Florida moved to different states.

Soil Pollution:

Soil pollution is the contamination of the earths land to a point where it is harmful for humans health and the "health" of the ecosystem.

This type of pollution is a great concern to farmers. Unfourtunatley little do those farmers do not know that 

 the fertilizer that they are using for their crops is one very big reason for soil pollution.

Trash that humans dump into landfills are also a big cause for soil pollution. Although most trash is able to decompose but although the trash is not there the chimacals and the toxics are still there in the soil.