Pollution and threats to the environment

This book provides a platform for the dissemination of information on the latest initiatives, paving the way for technology transfer and networking.

This book presents the selected papers from the 2023 5th International Conference on Environmental Sciences and Renewable Energy (ESRE 2023), which was held as a hybrid conference during June 19–21, 2023, in Vienna, Austria.

To examine the potential role of companion animals as sentinels of relevant, shared environmental exposures that may affect human aging and cancer, the National Cancer Policy Forum held a workshop in collaboration with the Forum on Aging, Disability, and Independence and the Standing Committee on the Use of Emerging Science for Environmental Health Decisions to explore this promising and underutilized pathway for research.

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

This book offers innovative scientific ideas and technical expertise for a sustainable solution in water resources and water pollution treatment.

This book discusses disaster risks and hazards as well as measures to increase people's resilience.

Transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, with petroleum accounting for 90 percent of transportation fuels.

Since its first systematic application during the 1970s, bioremediation, or the exploitation of a biological system's degradative potential to combat toxic pollutants such as heavy metals, polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), cyanides, and radioactive material, has proven itself over time, and the many advances in molecular techniques have only amplified its utility.

This volume contains a selection of scientific papers which were presented at an international workshop on the impacts of climatic variability held in Wengen, Switzerland, September 1997.

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

'I love that I don't need to feel ashamed at my happiest, and that my joy no longer needs to go through a filter before it's ready to see the light of day'Laura Kate Dale and 15 other autistic authors from around the globe, open the door and invite you in to explore and celebrate the candid, uplifting and intimate moments of autistic joy.

Biokinetic modeling provides a mathematical technique for estimating absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of chemicals, including particles and metals, in humans.

Industrial stormwater is derived from precipitation and/or runoff that comes in contact with industrial manufacturing, processing, storage, or material overburden and then runs offsite and enters drainage systems or receiving waters.

The accident of Chernobyl enabled the scientific community to study nuclear fall-out effects in situ establishing new kinds of interpretation methods.

During the past century, the Everglades, one of the world's treasured ecosystems, has been dramatically altered by drainage and water management infrastructure to improve flood management, urban water supply, and agricultural production.

More than a decade after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the Gulf Research Program convened a diverse group of 60 experts in a virtual event to inform its efforts to enhance resilience to future offshore oil disasters in the Gulf of Mexico region.

This book illuminates the essential role of plant genetic resources (PGR) in tackling global challenges such as climate change, desertification, and salinization of agricultural land.

This book seeks to explore the critical but very influential challenge of wastewater management from a global perspective and to specifics in SSA region where the subject is under researched.

The rapid conversion of land to urban and suburban areas has profoundly altered how water flows during and following storm events, putting higher volumes of water and more pollutants into the nation's rivers, lakes, and estuaries.

Responding to climate change will entail massive socio-emotional and behavioral changes.

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.

This book represents an original investigation employing a multidisciplinary approach to elucidate autonomous adaptation, which denotes the spontaneous responses of individuals and communities to mitigate the impacts and seize the opportunities arising from climate change in Indian contexts.

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.

This book consists of selected and peer reviewed papers which were presented at the 2024 14th International Conference on Environmental Science and Engineering (ICESE 2024).

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.

This book presents a series of state-of-the-art methods for air quality monitoring in various engineering environment by using data science.

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.

This book discusses disaster risks and hazards as well as measures to increase people's resilience.

To want to save the planet , a person has to have a sense of belonging in it What would a saved planet look like for a Black collective?

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.

Through a presentation of the oldest rock art dated in the Americas, located in Monte Alegre, Brazil, this book analyzes an ancient ecological-astronomy strategy that theoretically made the rapid human migration in the Americas successful.

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.

This book presents select proceedings of the Indian International Conference on Air Quality Management (IICAQM) and examines the latest advancements in theories, technologies, and applications in the area of air quality management and health impacts.

Post-Carbon Futures: Imagining (and Enacting) New Worlds through Transition Studies explores the multitude of possibilities for conceiving and creating fulfilling post-carbon ways of life.

Plastic pollution is a serious global environmental and health concern caused by the excessive use of plastic products and poor management of plastic waste.

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