Thursday, February 26, 2009

LITTLE THINGS FOR BIGGEST MEANING...

HAVE YOU EVER HEARD ABOUT VISUALIZE IS MORE RECOMMENDABLE THAN LISTENING AND READING TO EDUCATE PEOPLE.....????? SO TAKE THIS!!!!!!









HOPE THIS CARTOON HELP US TO UNDERSTAND BETTER ABOUT HOW IMPORTANT ENVIRONMENT TO OUR LIFE.......

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Pollution effects...


Pollution effects are indeed many and wide-ranging.
There is no doubt that excessive levels of pollution are causing a lot of damage to human & animal health, plants & trees including tropical rainforests, as well as the wider environment.
All types of pollution – air, water and soil pollution – have an impact on the living environment.
The effects in living organisms may range from mild discomfort to serious diseases such as cancer to physical deformities; ex., extra or missing limbs in frogs.
Experts admit that pollution effects are quite often underestimated and that more research is needed to understand the connections between pollution and its effects on all life forms.

Environmental Pollution Effects on Humans

We know that pollution causes not only physical disabilities but also psychological and behavioral disorders in people.
We are discussing the effects of air pollution and specific air pollutants in more detail in the Air Pollutants article.
The following pollution effects on humans have been reported:
Air Pollution Effects (1, 2)
• Reduced lung functioning
• Irritation of eyes, nose, mouth and throat
• Asthma attacks
• Respiratory symptoms such as coughing and wheezing
• Increased respiratory disease such as bronchitis
• Reduced energy levels
• Headaches and dizziness
• Disruption of endocrine, reproductive and immune systems
• Neurobehavioral disorders
• Cardiovascular problems
• Cancer
• Premature death

Water Pollution Effects (3)
Waterborne diseases caused by polluted drinking water:
• Typhoid
• Amoebiasis
• Giardiasis
• Ascariasis
• Hookworm

Waterborne diseases caused by polluted beach water:
• Rashes, ear ache, pink eye
• Respiratory infections
• Hepatitis, encephalitis, gastroenteritis, diarrhoea, vomiting, and stomach aches

Conditions related to water polluted by chemicals (such as pesticides, hydrocarbons, persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals etc):
• Cancer, incl. prostate cancer and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
• Hormonal problems that can disrupt reproductive and developmental processes
• Damage to the nervous system
• Liver and kidney damage
• Damage to the DNA
• Exposure to mercury (heavy metal):
o In the womb: may cause neurological problems including slower reflexes, learning deficits, delayed or incomplete mental development, autism and brain damage
o In adults: Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, heart disease, and even death
Other notes:
• Water pollution may also result from interactions between water and contaminated soil, as well as from deposition of air contaminants (such as acid rain)
• Damage to people may be caused by fish foods coming from polluted water (a well known example is high mercury levels in fish)
• Damage to people may be caused by vegetable crops grown / washed with polluted water (author’s own conclusion)

Soil Pollution Effects (4)
• Causes cancers including leukaemia
• Lead in soil is especially hazardous for young children causing developmental damage to the brain
• Mercury can increase the risk of kidney damage; cyclodienes can lead to liver toxicity
• Causes neuromuscular blockage as well as depression of the central nervous system
• Also causes headaches, nausea, fatigue, eye irritation and skin rash
Other notes:
• Contact with contaminated soil may be direct (from using parks, schools etc) or indirect (by inhaling soil contaminants which have vaporized)
• Soil pollution may also result from secondary contamination of water supplies and from deposition of air contaminants (for example, via acid rain)
• Contamination of crops grown in polluted soil brings up problems with food security
• Since it is closely linked to water pollution, many effects of soil contamination appear to be similar to the ones caused by water contamination

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Spread the LOVE...


HSE Week, which is held in UTP, brings lots of information for us to know about our environment. Every booth explains to UTPians about how important environment affect to our life. Many activities held in HSE Week to attract all UTP students join and gain a new experience in their life. Blog writing, photography and pop quiz are among the activities in HSE Week.

Regarding to some information that we’ve seen during the road show HSE Week, how people from other country struggling and surviving to live on earth when HSE is not practised in our daily life.

The main thing that we are focussing on is that the important of being a saviour to our next generation, which means we are saving our earth today for a better living condition on the next day, also to maintain the greeneries and the environmental health.

“Where is the love?”
What kind of love we are looking for? Love between men and women? No. We are looking and searching for some love in human’s heart to the environment. To keep the environment healthy, clean, zero pollution and peace.

Therefore, in this HSE Week, let us start spreading out our love to our beloved nature. Discover and explore our nature and live a life with “her”.= )

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Greetings!

Hello and greetings! Welcome to our blog. We created this blog mainly about our beloved environment and greenery of the nature. The idea is to make conscious and open up our generation's mind about this environment things. Why?

Because this is our world, our land, our living environment that we must protect with all our heart in order to live in a very conducive, clean, healthy and safety environment...