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what is pollution? What are the various types of pollution? Explain them.​

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The term "pollution" refers to any substance that negatively impacts the environment or organisms that live within the affected environment. The five major types of pollution include: air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution, light pollution, and noise pollution.

Air Pollution

The major source of air pollution results from the burning of fossil fuels, which causes an excess of carbon monoxide in the atmosphere. Vehicles commonly cause this kind of pollution, as does the burning of coal. Fossil fuels being burned create a substance commonly referred to as smog, which is a dense layer of carbon-monoxide-based cloud matter. Air pollution is a contributing factor of asthma, lung cancer, chronic bronchitis, as well as many other lung-based ailments. The burning of a large amount of fossil fuels can also result in the mixture of sulfuric acid and nitrogen, which can combine to form acid rain.

Water Pollution

Water pollution is primarily caused by watery run-off from agricultural sites, industrial sites and urban sites. Runoff consists of harmful, contaminated or unnatural chemicals or substances that interfere with a water source to infect and ultimately destroy the water therein. Agricultural runoff includes toxins found in pesticides and herbicides, urban runoff contains large amounts of organic waste and industrial runoff often contains high amounts of chemical toxins and residues. Any of these pollutants entering a water source can cause multiple health issues, the spreading of dangerous diseases and potentially premature death of humans and other animals.

Soil Pollution

Soil can become polluted as a result of improper disposal of chemical materials or toxins. This often occurs near large agricultural sites where excess herbicides or pesticides are used on crops. Sites that become polluted often become barren wastelands with toxic soil. These sites are often abandoned and cannot be used, resulting in a large stretch of land going to waste.

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