An environmental impact is any modification to the environment brought on by a facility's operations, products, or services. [2] In other words, it is the effects of human behaviour on the environment. For instance, the effect of releasing volatile organic compounds into the atmosphere is pollution, specifically smog, which is harmful in this situation. On the other side, clearing the neighborhood's environment of litter can be beneficial.

Negative Consequences
Our use of energy frequently has the biggest negative impacts in a society that depends on it. As hydrocarbons like coal and oil are burned to produce usable energy, carbon dioxide is emitted.

Economic Advantages
Natural environments provide several advantages to humans, some of which are more obvious than others. Barrier islands and sand dunes that extend inland protect the inland population from high tides. Rainfall, which refills subsurface and surface water resources, rivers, lakes, and other natural sources provide water for drinking. Wetlands and marshes filter a number of chemicals that might otherwise result in widespread pollution. Nitrogen-fixing bacteria encourage crop growth. Plants are a constant source of new drugs being found. There are plenty of fish in the seas to feed a growing population. Research shows that natural ecosystems provide more than $40 trillion in annual global services.

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Simply said, the environment is everything that is around us, both living and non-living. These are the physical surroundings in which a person, an animal, or a plant resides. The environment encompasses all that is around us, including the air, land, water, plants, animals, climate, geographical characteristics, man-made constructions, and even light.

All of these things and more exist on earth or in a region of it, whether they are living organisms or not. All of these parts function as one cohesive unit in various ways, primarily influenced by human activities. The surroundings are full of amazing, thrilling, and occasionally unexpected items, residents, and of course, facts. Here are more than 25 fascinating environmental facts that may astound you.

Cows "damage" the environment, according to Fact 1: With farting and burping, each cow can annually produce between 200 and 400 pounds of methane gas. These concentrations are extremely high and 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide gas.

Fact 2: There is a lot of water on the planet. Water covers about 71% of the planet's surface. The remarkable thing about this is that water is recycled continuously and at a constant volume. So, it implies that part of the water you drink today may have once been a member of an extinct species or maybe a dinosaur!

Fact 3: Only 1% of the water that is available is used by humans. As was already mentioned, water makes up roughly 71% of the earth. Around 96.5% of the water on earth is contained in the oceans, and 2% is contained in the ice caps. The remainder can be found, among other water sources, in rivers, ponds, glaciers, ice caps, lakes, as water vapour, and in our faucets. It's interesting to note that only 1% of the water can be used by people.

Fact 4: Each year, about 10 million trees are felled to create toilet paper. In 2015, there were 3.04 trillion trees worldwide. However, 27,000 of them are cut down every day to make toilet paper, which amounts to a yearly tree loss of 9.8 million trees.

Fact 5 :Recyclable paper made from trees can be used six times. Paper is made from trees, and after six recycling processes, the fibres are no longer strong enough to hold the paper together. It implies that recycling the daily print run of a widely read magazine or newspaper might save roughly 75,000 trees worldwide.

 Fact 6: Aluminum is endlessly recyclable! Aluminum may be recycled indefinitely, in contrast to paper, which has a maximum number of recycling cycles. Aluminum can recycling generates enough energy to power a television for three hours. Given that we consume 80 trillion cans annually, how long can televisions be on?

Fact 7: Humans are being killed by the planet. The hazardous air, water, and soil, among other forms of pollution, are caused by humans. In consequence, the pollution causes about nine million deaths annually, either directly or indirectly. The numbers are three times higher than the combined death toll from AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis.