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Miss Earth Australia its new environmental statement called ENVIRONMENT will cover the various environmental activities and campaigns to be adopted by our Partners as well as our Members. This program is being devised to convey a definitive, identifiable and highly sustainable environmental awareness program involving the general public and encouraging them as well to take action. Miss Earth Australia Environment Online Forum! " Every time you shop, you make an environmental decision. Use your common sense and take a minute to consider the product's impacts before you buy it." - Marella Hazel G. Olea - "Not only have we failed to realise that we are one people, but we have forgotten that we have only one planet." -Jacques Cousteau- " Choose products that are durable, recycled and recyclable and avoid disposable products. Every tonne of paper recycled saves 17 trees. " - Marie Leez Quimpo - |
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On our planet, air is one of the most important natural resources on which all life depends. However, our atmosphere is also in the front line for receiving environmental pollution.
More detailed information on the extent and effects of air pollution can be found in the relevant Themes below, whereas this section focuses mainly on technical reports related to air monitoring, covering subjects as diverse as methods for calculating road transport emissions and software tools used to report national air pollution levels.
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Clean fresh water is essential to life. Unfortunately, since the Industrial Revolution, most of Europe’s rivers have been treated more like a convenient way of transporting waste to the sea, destroying the biodiversity of thousands of kilometres of waterways, harming human health, and polluting coastal waters in the process.
The past decades have seen significant progress in treating the sewage and industrial wastes which are being pumped into Europe’s river systems, resulting in lower levels of most pollutants and a measurable improvement in water quality. The agricultural sector, on the other hand, has not made as much progress. Nitrate levels in Europe’s rivers are still as high as they were at the beginning of the last decade.
Not only the quality of water but also the quantity available for human use is of importance, and more and more frequently, there are problems with water scarcity around large cities and in southern Europe.
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Extending from the Arctic Circle to the Mediterranean and from the Alps to the Canary Islands, Europe is home to a stunning diversity of natural and semi-natural habitats. The pressures threatening these habitats are almost as diverse, ranging from tourism to agriculture, eutrophication to urban sprawl.
This section examines the health of these ecosystems, their place in the environment, the outlook for the animals and plants inhabiting them, the pressures facing them, and the initiatives under way to protect them.
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While soils are as essential to human society as air and water, soil degradation has not received nearly as much attention as the threats to these other two elements. Still soils are the basis for 90% of all human food, livestock feed, fibre, and fuel. They support human settlements and provide raw materials and groundwater. Major problems in Europe include: loss of top-soil due to erosion or building activities, contamination, and acidification.
Lack of attention to soil degradation can be seen not only in the lack of European directives or soil protection targets, but also in the scarcity of data. While, for instance, 300,000 sites across the EU have been identified as definitely or potentially contaminated, the best estimate is that there are 1.5 million contaminated areas.
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