Archive: Posts Tagged ‘Soil’

Wars and Soil Pollution

1 comment December 5th, 2009

Soil pollution is defined as the build-up in soils of persistent toxic compounds, chemicals, salts, radioactive materials, or disease causing agents, which have adverse effects on plant growth and animal health.  Land pollution occurs massively during earth quakes, land slides, hurricanes and floods. All cause hard to clean mess, which is expensive to clean, and sometimes take years to restore the affected area. These kinds of natural disasters are not only a problem in that they cause Read more