Collect Any five news items on the environmental issues. Paste them in a project file and comment on any two
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• Pollution
• Soil degradation
• Population
• Water
• Deforestation
• In the near future water will become a commodity according to the experts. One third of people have insufficient access to clean water. The number of people is expected to increase by the year 2050.
• Pollution is the biggest environmental issue. All other environmental issues flow from the fact that we are over populating the Earth.
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a. Environmental protection has today certainly become the buzzword, in the midst of growing development and to fulfil our insatiable needs, human beings have inflicted permanent damage to the environment
b. There have been concerted efforts on part of international community to bring about conservation and protection of environment
c. Some of the important environment news that has captured the headlines has been with regard to climate change due to global warming which has increased the overall temperature
d. Further, researchers have also studied that more and more storms have and are likely to occur and impact various regions of the World due to overall climate change
e. According to the latest reports , it has been estimated that Antarctic temperature is likely to rise by 3 degrees due to global warming
f. Changes in climate will also have severe impact on the harvest in many parts of the World including US
g. Recent study has also reported that World heritage sites are largely being damaged and impacted by human activities like construction of infrastructure, increase in land use area