Pollution and threats to the environment

In a rapidly changing climate, understanding the complex interactions between humans and wildlife is crucial for fostering coexistence.

Wildfires in America are becoming larger, more frequent, and more destructive, driven by climate change and existing land management practices.

The National Academies Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, and Board on Children Youth and Families convened a workshop in August 2022 to explore the impact of specific environmental exposures in utero, infancy, early childhood, and adolescence.

Climate change is the greatest market failure in world history and thus the most urgent challenge in the world of business for the foreseeable future.

This book systematically summarizes the occurrence and source of MPs through various municipal and industrial wastewaters.

The particular behavior of trace metals in the environment is determined by their specific physico-chemical form rather than by their total concentration.

What do rising temperatures and increasing extreme weather events mean for military readiness?

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Presss Open Access publishing program.

This book's title, No Straight Road Takes You There, is an evocation and a declaration.

Addressing climate change is essential and possible, and it offers a host of benefits - from better public health to new economic opportunities.

The US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is a collection of 13 Federal entities charged by law to assist the United States and the world to understand, assess, predict, and respond to human-induced and natural processes of global change.

The fresh water supplies of the Earth are finite and as the world's population continues to grow humanity's thirst for this water seems unquenchable.

Climate change is a pressing problem.

The end of life, the universe and humanity as we know it in a handy A to Z format.

While progress has been made in the development of decarbonization technologies, much work remains in scale-up and deployment.

Sunscreens and a variety of other products contain chemical ultraviolet (UV) filters that absorb or block the sun's radiation and thereby help mitigate harms to human skin from the sun.

Over the past two decades, wildfires in western North America have greatly increased in frequency, magnitude and severity.

Against Catastrophism explores catastrophism from multiple vantage points and considers the impact of ongoing crisis on individuals.

Climate change challenges are unlike any hazard that infrastructure and related shareholders have faced for millennia.

This book offers a complex and problem-based analysis of the past, present, and future of smart cities in Japan's energy transition.

The portending process of climate change, induced by the anthropogenic accumulations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, is likely to generate effects that will cascade through the biosphere, impacting all life on earth and bearing upon human endeavors.

Climate Crisis Economics: A Race of Tipping Points draws on economics, political economy, scientific literature, and data to gauge the extent to which our various communities - political, economic, and business - are making the essential leap to a new narrative and policy approach that will accelerate us towards the necessary transition to a decarbonised economy and sustainable future.

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs) have become an essential technology used in navigation, positioning, and timing applications in meteorology, environmental monitoring, disaster management, and space exploration.

Gaia Wakes presents a compelling new framework for understanding the past, present, and future of our planet.

As urban populations grow unprecedentedly, cities worldwide face pressures from rapid expansion, climate change, and social inequalities.

This book is a comprehensive guide that explores the intricate relationship between chemistry and the environment.

This book is created for a diverse audience that includes geologists and Earth scientists studying the impacts of geological processes on human health, as well as health professionals and medical researchers interested in the environmental determinants of health.

Being a Sustainable Firm: Takeaways for a Sustainability-oriented Management addresses strategies and management issues related to the latest innovations in the field of sustainability.

Bringing together 17 authors from diverse perspectives, Insights on Journalism and Human Rights offers an accessible introduction to the characteristics and complexities of reporting human rights issues in a changing media environment.

Shifts the conversation from abstract ';global warming' to the deeply human impacts of heatand how our efforts to keep cool have made the problem worse.

Pairing in-depth journalism with historical perspectives, this book makes a compelling case for a natural solution to the growing problem of flooding.

This edited volume takes a comprehensive look at solid waste management across jurisdictions in Canada, including provinces, territories, municipalities, and Indigenous communities.

Coeur d'Alene Lake in northern Idaho is an invaluable natural, recreational, and economic resource for communities in Idaho and eastern Washington.

As the sun starts slowly disappearing, the residents of a remote town in the desert find themselves undergoing shocking transformations in this dazzlingly eerie and bewitching novelIn Five Poems Lake, a town surrounded by impenetrable deserts, the sun is slowly disappearing overhead.

An essential book for everyone who seeks to reclaim the commons and build a just and equitable society.

Since its establishment in 1970, the mission of the Environmental Protection Agency is to protect human health and the environment.

Experiencing a single disaster - a hurricane, tornado, flood, severe winter storm, or a global pandemic - can wreak havoc on the lives and livelihoods of individuals, families, communities and entire regions.

This book analyzes social capital and preparations for natural hazards in the Philippines.