Pollution and threats to the environment

The Gold Coast is one of Australia's premier tourism destinations, a modern city cut out of coastal vegetation, including paperbark swamps, mangroves and rainforests of both Indigenous and worldwide significance.

Freshwater scarcity is a critical challenge, with social, economic, political and environmental consequences.

Floods, fires, famines, epidemics and disasters of all kinds are on the increase, and as their frequency rises so does the call for greater resilience.

Are you wishing you knew how to better communicate science, without having to read several hundred academic papers and books on the topic?

Healthy waterways and oceans are essential for our increasingly urbanised world.

Climate Change Adaptation for Health and Social Services addresses concerns from the health and community services sector, including local government, about how to respond to climate change and its impacts on communities.

Carbon capture and geological storage (CCS) is presently the only way that we can make deep cuts in emissions from fossil fuel-based, large-scale sources of CO2 such as power stations and industrial plants.

Since 1788, Australia has carried the yoke of four European seasons that make no sense in most parts of the country.

Sustainable Futures explores the links between population growth, diminishing resources and environmental challenges, and the implications for Australia's future.

Australian Alps is a fascinating guide to Kosciuszko, Alpine and Namadgi National Parks.

What are the 10 key issues that must be addressed urgently to improve Australia's environment?

A scarcity of natural resources.

A scarcity of natural resources.

Endurance presents stories of ordinary Australians grappling with extraordinary circumstances, providing insight into their lives, their experiences with drought and their perceptions of climate change.

Ever wondered how vaccines work, why whales strand themselves or if luck exists?

Ever wondered how vaccines work, why whales strand themselves or if luck exists?

Whether you have a garden suffering from lack of attention, damaged from weather events or suffering pest attacks, Australian Garden Rescue will guide you through practical solutions, helpful tips and preventative tactics to minimise future harm.

Pesticide exposure has long been a cause for concern, and with good reason.

Why are white evangelicals the most skeptical major religious group in America regarding climate change?

This timely and urgent collection brings together cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship and ideas from around the world to present critical examinations of climate coloniality.

The world is on the cusp of one and a half degrees of warming - just the rise it has committed itself to avoiding.

The concept of sustainable development appeared almost twenty years ago, adapting traditional policies to new circumstances, and promoting progress capable of satisfying the necessities of both present and future generations.

This comprehensive text provides a concise overview of environmental problems caused by agriculture, (such as pesticide pollution and increased nitrate levels) and offers practical solutions to them.

In the countries of the Middle East and Northern Africa, reclaimed wastewater is recognized as a non-conventional water resource.

This book interrogates the problems of how and why largely unseen matter, in this case groundwater, has found limited expression in climate fiction.

Diffuse pollution of water resources has a multi-disciplinary dimension and the measures to prevent and control it are closely inter-related to the development patterns and societal habits of the region.

Pollutant Effects in Freshwater provides a practical and concise introduction to the ecological consequences of water pollution in aquatic ecosystems.

This book concerns the urgency of thinking and acting in response to climate change through art and education.

Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society is a comprehensive guide that provides insights into the multifaceted relationship between climate change and society and covers a wide array of topics, disciplines, and cultures, from the latest trends in weather patterns to the issue of climate (in)justice.

In Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics, Lisa E.

In this new installation of his work, William E.

Jairus Victor Grove contends that we live in a world made by war.

The consequences of twenty-first-century sea level rise on the United States and its nearly 90,000 miles of shoreline will be immense: Miami and New Orleans will disappear; many nuclear and other power plants, hundreds of wastewater plants and toxic waste sites, and oil production facilities will be at risk; port infrastructures will need to be raised; and over ten million Americans fleeing rising seas will become climate refugees.

From the author of the Fall 2015 Disney movie The Finest Hours, the thrilling and perfectly paced (Booklist) story of the sinking and rescue of Bountythe tall ship used in the classic 1962 movie Mutiny on the Bountywhich was caught in the path of Hurricane Sandy with sixteen aboard.

Earth and its inhabitants face an unprecedented crisis--the human-caused destruction of the planet's life support systems.

This memoir chronicles the unique ordeals of identical twin sisters Diana and Julia Lockwood.

This book critically explores how the water-energy-food nexus can be used as an organising framework to address environmental degradation and promote sustainable development.

The first meeting in this series was organized by Prof.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established the "e;Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society"e; (CCMS) at the November 1969 meeting of the North Atlantic Council.

In 1969 the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established the Committee on Challenges of Modern Society (CCMS).

Most texts on computational methods are borne out of research activities at postgraduate study programs, and this is no exception.

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology provides detailed review articles concerned with aspects of chemical contaminants, including pesticides, in the total environment with toxicological considerations and consequences.

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology provides detailed review articles concerned with aspects of chemical contaminants, including pesticides, in the total environment with toxicological considerations and consequences.

Since the computing revolution, modelling has become the most important way in which we further our knowledge about how the sea moves and how the processes in the sea operate.

Finishing this book is giving me a mixture of relief, satisfaction and frus- tration.

International concern in scientific, industrial, and governmental communities over traces of xenobiotics in foods and in both abiotic and biotic environments has justified the present triumvirate of specialized publications in this field: comprehensive reviews, rapidly published research papers and progress reports, and archival documentations.

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Extractions of Metals from Soils and Waters represents a new emphasis in the series Modern Inorganic Chemistry, namely the impact inorganic chemistry can have on the environment.

Much has been written about the effects of increased UV radiation caused by stratospheric ozone depletion on the weather, but there has been a dearth of publications on the role of UV on ecosystems as a whole.