How Pollution Affects Endangered Species
Pollution doesn’t only affect human health directly. It also has a tremendous impact on the natural environment and the organisms that inhabit it. This is especially true for endangered and threatened species that rely heavily upon specialized environments or lie high upon the food chain. Whether as a consequence of habitat destruction, direct poisoning that [...]
You Find CFCs in Some of the Most Interesting Places
Though it was realized by scientists in the early 1970s that chlorofluorocarbons posed a massive potential threat to the ozone layer that protects the Earth (and it’s inhabitants) from DNA-damaging solar radiation, action was not taken on an international scale until for nearly 20 years. CFCs were, when they were invented in the 1930s, supposed [...]