Environment

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 * What are the most serious environmental problems in your country? What could be done to prevent or eliminate them?**


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Teacher: Dimitris Fasouras Some interesting articles about the environment

//__Some environmental problems are__// : Acid rain Air pollution Sea pollution Garbage

__TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS__

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//** Air pollution is caused by industries, means of transportation and households. Generally, industries are responsible for the 50% of air pollution, means of transportation are responsible for the 35% and households are responsible for the 15%. As regarding air pollution results the carbon dioxide, global warming and ozone hole etc. **// media type="youtube" key="Aq_RzjmNyL8" height="315" width="420" //__MARINE POLLUTION__//

// **To protect the marine environment there should be the prevention of appropriate legislative, administrative and organizational measures, surveillance of lakes, rivers and seas, such as information and public awareness, the imposition of sanctions on offenders and more. ** //

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// **Rubbish pollution that comes from human intervention too and this is the main problem in Greece. People don’t realize that they have harmed in very high level the environment and the lives of the new generations will have to face this problem if we don’t do anything about it and don’t get imposed like a law in time. ** //

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//**To avoid environmental pollution that comes from garbage people should put their garbage in the right bins, signs must be tagged to show people the right thing to do, and surveillance has to be in the areas that most garbage is thrown, in remote areas too and more. **//

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//__CLIMATE CHANGE__// // **Climate change makes Europe's climate more hot and humid, which will bring** // //**diseases that are caused by mosquitoes, other insects and rodents. The spread of diseases**// //**such as dengue fever, encephalitis, malaria or yellow fever is therefore easier.**// //**Additionally, global warming could cause the increase of germs and bacteria.**//

//__BIODIVERSITY__// //**Biodiversity is all living b **// // **eings , species ** // //**and ecosystems that constitute life on Earth, like animals **// //**birds , fish and plants <span class="hps atn" style="background-color: #f5f5f5; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">( <span style="background-color: #f5f5f5; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">flora and fauna). M <span class="hps alt-edited" style="background-color: #f5f5f5; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">any species are **// //**<span class="hps" style="background-color: #f5f5f5; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">expected to disappear from areas which influenced **// //**<span class="hps" style="background-color: #f5f5f5; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">directly from changes in climate all over the world. **//   //**<span class="hps" style="background-color: #f5f5f5; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Animals whose natural environment is living in **// //**<span class="hps" style="background-color: #f5f5f5; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Earth's poles or generally in cold climates <span style="background-color: #f5f5f5; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">, <span class="hps" style="background-color: #f5f5f5; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">for example **//

//**<span class="hps" style="background-color: #f5f5f5; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">polar bears, seals and penguins will be affected <span class="atn" style="background-color: #f5f5f5; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">- **// //**<span class="hps" style="background-color: #f5f5f5; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">by global warming and melting of the PA **// //**<span class="hps" style="background-color: #f5f5f5; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">angle <span style="background-color: #f5f5f5; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">. <span class="hps" style="background-color: #f5f5f5; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Also <span style="background-color: #f5f5f5; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">, <span class="hps" style="background-color: #f5f5f5; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">birds are forced to <span class="hps alt-edited" style="background-color: #f5f5f5; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">imigrate <span class="hps" style="background-color: #f5f5f5; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">to different **// //**<span class="hps" style="background-color: #f5f5f5; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">areas where they lived until today. <span style="background-color: #f5f5f5; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">T <span class="hps" style="background-color: #f5f5f5; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">he tropical **// //**<span class="hps" style="background-color: #f5f5f5; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">and other forests in the southern regions will lead to extinction and **// //**<span class="hps" style="background-color: #f5f5f5; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">a rate of 60 <span style="background-color: #f5f5f5; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">% of species <span class="hps" style="background-color: #f5f5f5; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">found in mountain **// //**<span class="hps" style="background-color: #f5f5f5; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">areas will disappear. **//

//**<span class="hps" style="background-color: #f5f5f5; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Biodiversity loss involves deterioration of services provided by **//

//**<span class="hps" style="background-color: #f5f5f5; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">ecosystems (ecosystem services). The approach followed thus for **// //**<span class="hps" style="background-color: #f5f5f5; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">economic evaluation of the consequences of biodiversity loss is focused on **// //**<span class="hps" style="background-color: #f5f5f5; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">ecosystem services <span style="background-color: #f5f5f5; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">. <span class="hps" style="background-color: #f5f5f5; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The latest development in an effort to determine **// //**<span class="hps" style="background-color: #f5f5f5; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">economic value of services provided by ecosystems and development **// //**<span class="hps" style="background-color: #f5f5f5; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">economic tools that take this regard comes from the study entitled **//

//**<span class="hps" style="background-color: #f5f5f5; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (The Economics of Ecosystems and **//   //**<span class="hps" style="background-color: #f5f5f5; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Biodiversity - TEEB), held under the auspices of the European Commission. **//

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #888888; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-align: center;">//** Greece, shows great diversity of ecosystems and biodiversity landscapesmainly due to paleoclimatologist region, the small size of (132.000 km2 ). In long coastline (16.000 km) and strong territorial relief, in variety of geological formationsand rocks and largevariety of climate types, fromalmost Xeric (Crete ) to wet and cold, continental ( Rodopi), with intermediate types of Mediterranean change. **//

__**//Here is a link about://**__ //**The Sixth Environment Action Programme Of The European Community In The Last Decade (2002-2012)**// **//@http://ec.europa.eu/environment/newprg///** //__VIDEO__// media type="youtube" key="0SVNbXueGeg" height="283" width="378" align="center"

//**!**// //** ! ! SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT ! ! ! **//   //__QUESTIONNAIRE__//

media type="custom" key="12143150" align="left" RESULTS OF THE QUESTIONNAIRE!!! DO YOU RECYCLE? YES 84%  NO 7%   SOMETIMES 7%

DO YOU ALWAYS REMEMBER TO RECYCLE? YES 86%  NO 7%   SOMETIMES 15%

WHEN YOU BRUSH YOUR TEETH DO YOU CLOSE THE TAP? YES 92%  NO 7%   SOMETIMES 0% DO YOU TURN OFF THE LIGHTS WHEN YOU GET OUT OF A ROOM? YES 61%  NO 7%   SOMETIMES 30% DO YOU GO TO SCHOOL BY BIKE? YES 7%  NO 92%   SOMETIMES 0% DO YOU THROW THE TRASH IN THE BINS? YES 76%  NO 7%   SOMETIMES 15% DO YOU LET THE WATER RUN WHEN YOU ARE HAVING A SHOWER? YES 46%  NO 7%   SOMETIMES 30% DO YOU THROW YOUR TRASH IN THE SEA WHEN YOU ARE GOING FOR A SWIM? YES 15%  NO 84%   SOMETIMES 0% DO YOU GO EVERYWHERE BY CAR? YES 15%  NO 46%   SOMETIMES 38% DO YOU LET MANY DEVICES ON WHEN YOU ARE AT HOME? YES 30%  NO 30%   SOMETIMES 38%