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1.
damages our environment.
and
2. Pollutants are of two types:
3. Land pollution refers to
4. Sound is measured in
substances.
5. Radioactive pollution is caused by
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We tend to look skywards when talking about pollution, but this problem is not confined to our skies. The soil in which our fruit and vegetables grow is also suffering its consequences, the effects of which getting to us directly, for instance, through the aforementioned foodstuffs. The time has come to look after what lies under our feet!
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Soil pollution.
The soil is the skin of the earth, a mantle full of scars, thousand-year-old wrinkles and more recent injuries caused both by man and nature itself. Some of these ulcers are incurable — such as the extinction of species —, whereas others jeopardise health and food security, all of which threaten the well-being of the world's 3.2 billion inhabitants, as made clear in the latest report on soil degradation by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
WHAT IS SOIL POLLUTION
This invisible affliction appears when the concentration of pollutants on the surface becomes so high that it harms land biodiversity and endangers health.
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