Greenhouse gases are the main cause of climate change, trapping in the sun’s heat and warming the surface of the earth.
All seven key types of pollution – air, water, soil, noise, radioactive, light and thermal – are all having a negative impact on our environment.
As well as reducing our supply of oxygen, the destruction of forests upsets the carbon cycle.
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DEFORESTATION
WATER POLLUTION
Water pollution is killing both humans and marine life, too.
BIODIVERSITY
Global warming, pollution, deforestation, intensive agriculture – all of these developments are slashing biodiversity down to worrying dimensions. Billions of species are going or have gone extinct all over the world.
CLIMATE CHANGE
POLLUTION
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