Interesting facts on the topic “Ecological problems of continents and oceans”


    Pollution of the World Ocean is a global problem of mankind. According to scientists, about 1.5 million tons of oil fall into the ocean annually. And 25 million tons is enough to cover the entire world ocean with a 0.1 mm thick oil film. This is very dangerous, because, as noted the famous navigator and scientist Thor Heyerdahl, the dead ocean is a dead planet! According to the UN environmental department, the ozone layer is rapidly deteriorating rapidly, “ozone holes” are emerging. The ozone layer protects the earth’s surface from dangerous for all living ultraviolet radiation. Reducing ozone in the atmosphere threatens the health of people and animals, and also reduces the yield of crops. Only one chlorine atom can destroy 100 thousand molecules of ozone! “Ozone holes” periodically appear over South America, Australia, New Zealand, North America and Europe. Today, more than 120 billion tons of minerals are extracted from the bowels of the earth annually.
    But only 2 to 5% of mineral raw materials are used for production, the remaining 95% are sent to dumps and wastes. On the verge of exhaustion were gold, silver, mercury, tungsten, lead, zinc, tin. In the second half of XX century. drought and the advent of deserts in Africa have reached a continental scale and turned into a real disaster. The negative consequences of these processes were felt by 34 countries and over 150 million people. In 1985 in Africa about 1 million people. perished from hunger and 10 million became environmental refugees. The speed of the Sahara desert in some places has reached 10 km per year! The Chernobyl catastrophe is rightly called the greatest man-made disaster in the history of mankind. As a result of exposure, many of the people who participated in the elimination of the consequences of the accident, undermined their health, more than 50 thousand people. nearly 500 thousand people died. get sick. Radionuclides polluted 5 million hectares of soil and 1.5 million hectares of forest.

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Interesting facts on the topic “Ecological problems of continents and oceans”