Pollution and threats to the environment

Halogenated organic compounds constitute one of the largest groups of environmental chemicals.

The Mexican -- United States border represents much more than the meeting place of two nations.

Does money blur perspectives for a better life?

Small invisible particles in the urban air, especially those produced by human activities, have recently stimulated intense scrutiny, debate, regulation, and legal proceedings.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change (IPCC) was jointly established by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Envir- ment Programme (UNEP) to assess the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant for the understanding of the risk of human-induced climate change.

Chittaranjan Ray, Ph.

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

Over the years, the electric power industry has been using optimization methods to help them solve the unit commitment problem.

Proceedings of the Millennium NATO/CCMS International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modeling and its Application, held May 15-19 in Boulder, Colorado.

This book focusses on climate change and sustainable scientific and technological solutions.

As we transition into the 21st century, it is apparent that this is an exciting time for environmental engineers and scientists studying remediation technologies.

Several long-term trends in technology evolution have become apparent since these symposia began in 1989.

During the last 10 years, there has been a `revolution' in ecosystem modelling.

This authored book presents basic immunological tenets and mechanisms at the cellular and molecular level while employing the toxicology focus on hazard identification, appropriate assays, dose response, and risk assesment by mathematical models and safety factors.

A pioneer in the field of soundscape ecology explores the ways in which the voice of the natural world informs many subjects   Since 1968, Bernie Krause has traveled the world recording the sounds of remote landscapes, endangered habitats, and rare animal species.

Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our times, yet also seemingly intractable.

Silent Spring catalyzed an environmental movement in the 1960s and achieved a ban on DDT, but are the alternatives any less toxic?

In 1958, Charles David Keeling began measuring the concentration of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii.

Every person on the planet is entangled in a web of ecological relationships that link farms and factories with human consumers.

This collection pulls together key documents from the scientific and political history of climate change, including congressional testimony, scientific papers, newspaper editorials, court cases, and international declarations.

Using the lens of nutrition security and equity for the living beings and living systems of the planet, Nutrition Security for Planetary Health takes an integrated, systems approach that not only delineates the antecedents of the multifaceted environmental crises-but offers solutions including the extensive co-benefits of whole plant foods nutrition as the foundational dietary pattern for improving planetary health.

An overview of recycling as an activity and a process, following different materials through the waste stream.

A groundbreaking study of how emotions motivate attempts to counter species loss.

The growth of the global meat industry and the implications for climate change, food insecurity, workers'' rights, the treatment of animals, and other issues.

Making the case that we can use nuclear power to combat climate change even as we reduce the risks of nuclear terror.

A comparative examination of domestic climate politics that offers a theory for cross-national differences in domestic climate policymaking.

How the planet''s two largest greenhouse gas emitters navigate climate policy.

A proposal to reframe the Anthropocene as an age of actual and emerging coexistence with earth system variability, encompassing both human dignity and environmental sustainability.

A concise overview of carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS), a promising but overlooked climate change mitigation pathway.

An examination of clean technology entrepreneurship finds that “green capitalism” is more capitalist than green.