What are environmental issues?

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Imagine this is where you live.

How would you feel looking at this photo?

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Attribution: By Creator:Fidel Gonzalez – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link

What would you like to research about this photo?

Do you think this is an acceptable way to live?

Do you think this is a problem?

How would you solve this problem?

visual-skills-matt

Look at this visual skills matt.

start with your picture in the middle and work out words until you find a solution.

You may want to look at other pictures that show this problem and use this in your investigation:

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 By Sturm58 at English Wikipedia – Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons., CC BY-SA 3.0, Link

Picture of smog in Cairo.

This map shows the average over four years (March 2000 to February 2004) of carbon monoxide concentrations in spring.clerbaux-spring_nasa-f

By NASA – http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/mopitt.asp, Public Domain, Link

1280px-compostilla_ii_01_by-dpcThermal power station Compostilla II gas emissions view from Corullón (León, Spain), near Ponferrada under winter fog.

By David Perez – Own work, CC BY 3.0, Link

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My workplace fully covered in Fog.This is at 10:30 AM and I cld barely make out the building which is merely 100 m away frm whr i took this pic…

By Ashok Prabhakaran from Chennai, India – Foggy Day in Noida, CC BY-SA 2.0, Link

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By NASA – http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/environment/brown_cloud.html (NASA), Public Domain, Link

Particles from airborne pollution, such as the “Giant Brown Cloud,” can travel all around the globe. In April of 2001, NASA satellites saw a massive dust storm appear over China. The densest portion of the aerosol pollution traveled east over Japan, the Pacific Ocean, and, within a week, the United States. Credit NASA.

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By Izmaelt – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17065648

What does this picture show?

How can this be used as evidence in researching the effects of pollution?

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What does this show you? What does it make you want to find out? How can this used as evidence?

Look back at these pictures and evidence.

Now look at your skills map.

What else do you want to find out and research to support your solution?
Look at these two links – do they provide clues to a solution?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-39170488 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-39117262