Environment And Pollution

One of China's lesser-known exports is a dangerous brew of soot, toxic chemicals and climate-changing gases from the smokestacks of coal-burning power plants.In early April, a dense cloud of pollutants over Northern China sailed to nearby Seoul, sweeping along dust and desert sand before wafting across the Pacific. An American satellite spotted the cloud as it crossed the West Coast.
Researchers in California, Oregon and Washington noticed specks of sulfur compounds, carbon and other byproducts of coal combustion coating the silvery surfaces of their mountaintop detectors. These microscopic particles can work their way deep into the lungs, contributing to respiratory damage, heart disease and cancer.
Environment: the circumstances, objects, or conditions by which one is surrounded
Pollution: the action of polluting especially by environmental contamination with man-made waste
Recycle: to reuse or make (a substance) available for reuse for biological activities through natural processes of biochemical degradation or modification
Fossil fuel: a fuel (as coal, oil, or natural gas) formed in the earth from plant or animal remains
Forest: a dense growth of trees and underbrush covering a large tract
Protect: to cover or shield from exposure, injury, damage, or destruction
global warming: an increase in the earth's atmospheric and oceanic temperatures widely predicted to occur due to an increase in the greenhouse effect resulting especially from pollution
atmosphere: the gaseous envelope of a celestial body (as a planet) b:?the whole mass of air surrounding the earth
green house effect: warming of the surface and lower atmosphere of a planet (as Earth or Venus) that is caused by conversion of solar radiation into heat in a process involving selective transmission of short wave solar radiation by the atmosphere, its absorption by the planet's surface, and reradiation as infrared which is absorbed and partly reradiated back to the surface by atmospheric gases
What is the most important issue facing the environment today?
What are some types of pollution?
What can you do to help prevent pollution?
What are some ways that you can reduce pollution in this country?
Who do you think is more responsible for pollution, individual people or the government? Explain.
Do you know about any anti-pollution programs in your community?
Do you think overpopulation is an important environmental issue? Why or why not?
What happens when we remove forests?
What can we do to protect forests?
How is pollution affecting your environment
How has the world changed since you were a child? (technology, values, environment, health)
How often is garbage collected in your neighborhood?
Do you think recycling is an important community service?
What are some things that can be recycled?
Are there litter laws where you live? If so, what is the penalty for littering?
How can you contribute to degenerate wastes?
Which is more important, increasing people's standard of living, or protecting the environment?
If you could choose one alternative energy source to develop which one would you choose? Why?
Are companies more or less environmentally responsible now than they were in the past?
What is the most important issue facing the environment today?