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History Of Natural Disasters And Percentages

History has recorded several natural disasters across the globe. Let’s look at some of the historical natural disasters. At present, the South Asia tsunamis, which occurred in 2004, are considered to be one of the deadliest disasters recorded in the history of all natural calamities. It had the highest number of casualties ever recorded for tsunami events exceeding a tsunami in 1896 that took lives of around 27,000 people in Japan.

How Does Soil Pollution Affect Humans

Soil pollution is the result of excessive usage chemicals like fertilizers and pesticides as well as soil erosion. Apart from these, there is many a soil pollutant like toxic compounds, radioactive material and salts. Hydrocarbons, heavy metals (cadmium, lead, chromium, copper, zinc, mercury, and arsenic), herbicides, oils, tars, PCBs, and dioxins cause soil pollution.Before 1970 there was little knowledge about soil pollution.