Pollution and threats to the environment

The Clean Air Act of 1970 set out for the United States a basic, yet ambitious, objective to reduce pollution to levels that protect health and welfare.

The objective of Sustainable Communities Design Handbook is to ensure a better quality of life for everyone, both now and for generations to come.

This book presents both state-of-the art knowledge from Recent coral reefs (1.

This book examines the differences and similarities in the earth system components - the ocean, atmosphere, and the land - between western portions of the northern and southern Western Hemispheres, past, present, and projected.

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A new way of thinking about the climate crisis as an exercise in delimiting knowable, and habitable, worldsAs carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise, Earth's fragile ecosystems are growing increasingly unstable and unpredictable.

The interaction between smoke and air pollution creates a public health challenge.

Adsorption of Metals by Geomedia II serves as a needed resource for this topic which has received much attention during the past 25 years.

The Middle Holocene epoch (8,000 to 3,000 years ago) was a time of dramatic changes in the physical world and in human cultures.

The 20th century has experienced environmental changes that appear to be unprecedented in their rate and magnitude during the Earth's history.

From an environmental point of view, mountains are particularly sensitive and important for monitoring the state of health of our planet.

To achieve successful solutions to the problems resulting from local, distant and global radioactive fallout after nuclear explosions and accidents and to achieve successful retrospective analyses of the radiation conditions from recent observations, certain information is needed: the distribution of the exposure dose rate in the atmosphere and in a country; the distribution of radionuclides in natural environments and the nuclide composition of the radioactive fallout; the features of formation of the aerosol particle-carriers of the radioactivity and of the nuclide distribution of the particles of different sizes formed under different conditions; the processes involved in the migration of radioactive products in different zones and environments; the external and internal effects of nuclear radiation on human beings.

This handbook is an important and valuable source for engineers and researchers in the area of internal combustion engines pollution control.

In spite of the energy crises and the recession, there has been a global, explosive growth in the amount of motor vehicles.

The theory of the Earth's climate evolution based on universal chemical-physical laws of matter-energy transformation is presented in the book.

The Handbook of Air Pollution Prevention and Control provides a concise overview of the latest technologies for managing industrial air pollution in petrochemical, oil and gas, and allied industries.

Die Wälder des Amazonas-Beckens weisen die größte Biodiversität aller tropischen Wälder auf.

The leading professional guide to RF and microwave safety issues.

To understand the global warming mechanism, global mapping of primary production was carried out under the GCMAPS program.

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing global society.

Engineers and scientists have made great progress in advancing the understanding of the principles underlying environmental quality and public health.

Situated within the richest oil area in the world, the Arabian Gulf represents a stressed ecosystem with scarce published data and environmental studies.

'We urgently need Hannah Ritchie' GUARDIAN'Essential reading' RUTGER BREGMAN 'Read this book -- now' MARK LYNASWe can t afford to delay climate action, but with all the shouting and disagreement it s hard to know where to turn.