Спереводом текста на -язык. today environmental protection has become a universal problem. technological progress improves people's lives, but at the same time it brings about pollution and contamination of land, water and air. the atmosphere of the earth and the depths of the oceans are poisoned with toxic wastes created by the humans. millions of species - animals, birds, fish have already disappeared from our planet. natural resources are exhausted: the ecology of the planet is disbalanced. big cities face the environmental catastrophe too. concentration of millions of people on a tiny area causes numerous problems. some of them can be solved only at the expense of creating new ones. thus, air pollution is caused by the ever-increasing number of automobiles that help to cope with the transportation problem. the need for energy generates pollution on a large scale. nuclear power plants threaten air, water and land. radiation affects people's health. the accident at chernobyl in 1986 was tragic for many people. the necessity to employ all the inhabitants of the city leads to the creation of new factories that produce not only consumer goods, but wastes, noise and smog. another source of global danger is acid rain. it is a relatively new kind of pollution. acid rains appeared as a reaction of the atmosphere to the air contamination. acid rains damage water, forest, and soil resources. acid rains cause the disappearance offish from many lakes, bring death to the forests and woods in europe and america.