Soil Pollution and Its Effects Soil pollution may affect all of us as well as plants and animals. However, children are usually more susceptible. This is because kids are more sensitive to various ...

About 40 percent of deaths worldwide are caused by water, air and soil pollution ... of which more than half are children. Air pollution from smoke and various chemicals kills 3 million people ...

China is doing a very good job in controlling their pollution. They still have a long way to go but they have a national plan for attacking air, water and soil pollution and they're becoming a ...

Moreover, it remains to be determined whether only external sources of MP (sewage, wastewater, and runoff water due to rain) are responsible for the soil pollution. Scientists from Incheon ...

Soil damaged by pollution spills that include heavy metal can take many years to recover. On 25 April 1998, a tailings dam of the Los Frailes lead-zinc mine at Aznalcollar near the Spanish town of ...

Earthworms, insects and mites are all at risk from soil pollution, and scientists are worried that we know very little about the damage it's causing. Dr. Victoria Burton, a co-author of the new ...

Illnesses related to chemical pollution of the soil, water and air are responsible for an estimated 9 million premature deaths annually, which equates to 16% of all global deaths; half of these ...