Environmental Issues and it's Effect on Health and Nature

​What is Environment?

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Environmental ​Issues

​Environmental issues are defined as harmful effects to Earth and its natural systems due to the actions of humans. Although climate change can also occur from natural causes, human behavior has led to an increase in greenhouse emissions.

Environmental Problems in the Philippines​

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destruction of big areas of our forests

​DEFORESTATION

​Aside from logging (legal or illegal) other causes are forest fires , "kaingin" (slash and burn agriculture) and mining operations.

​LANDSLIDE

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Multiple Choice

What do you call to a sudden flood with great volume, usually caused by a heavy rain?

• floods

• flash floods

• tsunami

• high tide

​FLASH FLOODS

​While floods take some time, usually from 12 to 24 hours or even longer, to develop after the occurrence of intense rainfall, there is a particular type which develops after no more than six hours and, frequently, after an even less time. These are what are known as Flash Floods.

Multiple Select

Philippine biodiversity is in the brink of major wildlife crisis.

which of the ff are considered critically endangered species?

• pilandok

• tamaraw

• tarsier

• phil. eagle

• phil. freshwater crocodile

Multiple Choice

what do you call the destruction of the ocean's corals normally caused by illegal fishing techniques, pollution, careless tourism, other natural phenomena such as earthquakes and hurricanes, and of course, climate change

• oil spill

• coral reef degradation

• dynamite fishing

• water pollution

Multiple Choice

any alteration of the physical, chemical and biological properties of any water, air and/or land

• water pollution

• air pollution

• pollution

• noise pollution

​WATER POLLUTION

​is the release of substances into bodies of water that makes water unsafe for human use and disrupts aquatic ecosystems.

Multiple Choice

what is the biggest contributor of water pollution in the Philippines?

• domestic waste water

• agricultural waste water

• industrial waste water

Multiple Choice

what will happen when people burn fossil fuels and releases a lot of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide that it mixes to the water and oxygen in the atmosphere ?

• air polllution

• water pollution

• acid precipitation

• acid

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​In the Philippines, air pollution has become one of the biggest health emergencies, recording a total of 45.3 deaths for every 100,000 people due to air pollution-the third-highest in the world, based on the 2018 WHO study.

​Those deaths are tied to fine particulate matter in polluted air that penetrate deep into our lungs and cardiovascular systems, increasing the risk of heart disease, stroke, lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, like asthma, and respiratory infections, such as pneumonia, and also impacting our cognitive abilities in one way or another.

what should we do?..​

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