Pollution and threats to the environment

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE A Pulitzer Prize FinalistA National Book Award FinalistA Writers' Trust Award FinalistShortlisted for the Wainwright Conservation PrizeA Guardian Book of the YearA New York Times Book of the Year 'No book feels timelier .

This book states that the new environmental challenge will also have to be faced ethically, science can provide the tools, but people will have to be sensitized so that they make their own environmental ethics.

Over the past decade, international organizations (IOs) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have increasingly focused their efforts on the plight of environmental migrants in both industrialized and developing countries.

This book is a brief history of the end of the world as seen through the eyes of theatre.

The agriculture system is under pressure to increase production every year as global population expands and more people move from a diet mostly made up of grains, to one with more meat, dairy and processed foods.

In the debate over pollution control, the price of pollution is a key issue.

Climate change will not only impact the environment around us, but our thoughts, behaviors, and how we perceive the world.

Introduction to Environmental Toxicology is designed as a concise text, introducing students to the fundamentals of this important subject.

Water exploitation has increased notably in the world during the last 250 years since the onset of industrialisation.

The estimated health impacts and associated economic costs resulting from airborne particulate matter are substantial.

Museums, Art and Inclusion in a Climate Emergency considers the impact of the Anthropocene on history and memory, approaches to objects and agency and the incommensurability of western and Indigenous ontologies.

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 volume examines how international cooperation can support implementation of domestic climate policies in developing countries.

The world faces a climate crisis and an ascendant far right.

This text details the plant-assisted remediation method, "e;phytoremediation"e;, which involves the interaction of plant roots and associated rhizospheric microorganisms for the remediation of soil contaminated with high levels of metals, pesticides, solvents, radionuclides, explosives, crude oil, organic compounds and various other contaminants.

This book provides the technological insight on biorefinery and nanoremediation and provides comprehensive reviews on applications of Biochar for environmental sustainability.

Fast alle Landschaften auf der Erde sind Kulturlandschaften, in die der Mensch großräumig eingegriffen hat.

This book presents comprehensive knowledge regarding the spatial and temporal distributions, influential factors, interactions with coexisting contaminants, migration behavior, and environmental risk posed by microplastics (MPs) in urban waterways.

Nach Erhebungen der Abwassertechnischen Vereinigung (ATV) sind die öffentlichen Kanalnetze teilweise stark beschädigt.

This edited book is devoted to environmental risk management in gas industry impacted polar ecosystems of Russia, one of the hottest topics of modern environmental science.

This synopsis covers evidence for the effects of conservation interventions for native farmland wildlife.

This edited volume advances our understanding of climate relocation (or planned retreat), an emerging topic in the fields of climate adaptation and hazard risk, and provides a platform for alternative voices and views on the subject.

Through this assessment of creative (climate) communications, readers will understand what works where, when, why and under what conditions.

This handbook presents a comprehensive overview of insect conservation and provides practical solutions to counteract insect declines, at a time where insects are facing serious threats across the world from habitat destruction to invasive species and climate change.

Responsibility for future generations is easily postulated in the abstract but it is much more difficult to set it to work in the concrete.

Humic Substances color all waters more or less brown.

The issues surrounding water services are some of the most critical challenges facing not only the United States, but also the global community today.

,Sound and solid case studies on vulnerability and adaptation have been woefully lacking in the international discourse on climate change.

In the midst of global economic development, the world is rapidly running out of resources.

Huge quantities of natural resources are illegally harvested and their proceeds laundered in the Asia-Pacific region, fostering corruption and undermining environmental governance.

China's agriculture and rural society has undergone rapid changes in recent years.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

A quantitative, broad, hands-on introduction to the cutting-edge science of global warmingThis textbook introduces undergraduates to the concepts and methods of global warming science, covering topics that they encounter in the news, ranging from the greenhouse effect and warming to ocean acidification, hurricanes, extreme precipitation, droughts, heat waves, forest fires, the cryosphere, and more.

This textbook is focused on fundamentals of environment and ecology for undergraduate and graduate students.

This anthology is a two-volume work that focuses on our relationship with the Earth and our future, examining the crossover between psychology and environmental studies in the emerging fields of ecopsychology and environmental psychology.

Deniers of climate change sometimes quip that claims about global warming are more about political science than climate science.

Energy Capitol explores the waning of regulatory politics surrounding large-scale energy systems in the United States at the turn of the millennium.

Proceedings of the 48th Session of the International Seminars on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies held in Erice, Sicily.

Environmental engineers work to increase the level of health and happiness in the world by designing, building, and operating processes and systems for water treatment, water pollution control, air pollution control, and solid waste management.

In The Sustainable Manifesto, Kersten Reich describes in a concise and memorable way the necessary actions that humans need to take to live sustainably and combat climate change.

Air pollution damages materials, but it has changed dramatically in the past century, with a reduction in the concentration of corrosive primary pollutants in urban atmospheres.

This book comprises two parts.

This book offers a diverse set of solid concerted strategies in the development and implementation of specific "e;climate actions,"e; in natural and built places where we all live.

Explores how mosses can be used as monitors and experimental subjects for present and future climate change.

The Hanford Site was established by the federal government in 1943 as part of the secret wartime effort to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons.

This book is a rebuttal of the common belief that grave environmental consequences are associated with the issues of global warming and nuclear hazards.