Ways Birds Are Harmed

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Birds are commonly known as the Most birds fly and have feathers. Most species of birds take long migrations annually. Some birds have become extinct or are close to extinction due to harmful activities. Birds are mostly affected by oil spills, climate change, and pollutants.
The environment of Earth such as plants and animals are harmed by air pollution. Occasionally it is the pollutants that produce the environmental damage. But sometimes they merge and alter the assets that plants and animals need to survive like water, soil, and nutrients. Air pollutant like sulfuric acid mix with the water molecules that clouds are made of, the water molecules turn acidic. When these droplets of liquid collapse to the ground in the form of rain or snow, the water’s acidity can possess a harmful affect on the environment. Acid rain murders trees and hurt animals such as fish and other animals. Acid rain demolishes the leaves of plants. Chemistry of the soil is altered causing it to be unhealthy for living things that need soil for nutrition or their environment. Chemistry of the lakes and rivers that the water of rain go through are also affected by acidic rain which also harms fish and other marine life. Air pollutants are named as chlorofluorocarbons. They are in the stratosphere and demolish ozone molecules. Resulting in areas that are affected that have a thin ozone layer which are referred to as ozone holes. The ozone layer which is positioned in the Earth’s atmosphere where the stratosphere is, protects earth from ultraviolet radiation that is produced from the sun. This can cause skin cancer and be harmful to plants and animals. The amount of chlorofluorocarbons that are let go into the air have been less remarkably in recent decades a...

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...e near the shore are harmed by oil. Climate changing affects plants and animals. Bird life can be increased if oil spills, greenhouse gasses, and air pollutants were put an end to.

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