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Britain has been called «the dirty man of Europe»
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The research is done by Serhiy Shkafenko
The state of environment in Great Britain
Britain is
The word «ecology» means «house»
Britain has been called «the dirty man of Europe»
30 % of chicken is infected with salmonella
The disastrous outbreak of BSE (mad cow disease)
Deforestation: only 10 % of Britain
is forested
Smoke + fog = smog
4th December, 1952 – 4,000 people died
December,1962 – “Killer smog”
Radioactive waste: the Irish Sea –
the most radioactive in the world
SO2 + N2O + H2O = acid rain
450 mln of Britain’s trees are affected by acid rain
Reuse of water:
second – hand water is drunk without ill effect (thanks to modern methods of water purification in Great Britain)
10 National parks were created
