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Careless industrial activity may have other negative effects. Pollution, degradation, and overuse of natural resources are types of ecological or environmental hazards. Environmental hazards are agents (such as pollution) that result in the degradation of our physical surroundings and pose a risk to people’s health and well‐being. Sometimes these environmental hazards are naturally occurring. For instance, red tide—a harmful algae bloom in the Gulf of Mexico—kills fish and makes shellfish dangerous to eat. However, there is some evidence that fertilizers from farms may wash down rivers and have an impact on the presence of red tide in the ocean.