Pollution and threats to the environment

Formaldehyde is ubiquitous in indoor and outdoor air, and everyone is exposed to formaldehyde at some concentration daily.

Naturally occurring radionuclides are found throughout the earth's crust, and they form part of the natural background of radiation to which all humans are exposed.

Rivers provide about 60 percent of the nation's drinking water and irrigation water and 10 percent of the nation's electric power needs.

More than 5,800 military personnel, mostly Navy personnel and Marines, participated in a series of tests of U.

Watershed research is conducted by the U.

The Water Science and Technology Board has released the first report of the Committee on PublicWater Supply Distribution Systems: Assessing and Reducing Risks, which is studying water quality issuesassociated with public water supply distribution systems and their potential risks to consumers.

National interests in greater energy independence, concurrent with favorable market forces, have driven increased production of corn-based ethanol in the United States and research into the next generation of biofuels.

River and coastal floods are among the nation's most costly natural disasters.

Rejecting the assumption that housing and cities are separate from nature, David Clapham advances a new research framework that integrates housing with the rest of the natural world.

PROSE Award for Excellence in Humanities Finalist 2023Climate Change and Human History provides a concise introduction to the relationship between human beings and climate change throughout history.

The climate change crisis is the greatest challenge humanity has ever confronted.

This expanded, revised, and updated second edition of Innovations in Green Chemistry and Green Engineering provides a comprehensive introduction to the state-of-the-art in this key area of sustainability research.

Microfibers, synthetic fibers like polyester and nylon, are emerging contaminants widely distributed in air, water, and soil, posing significant ecological risks.

Menschen mit Autismus haben trotz ihrer offensichtlichen Stärken oft Schwierigkeiten, sich in der Gesellschaft zu behaupten.

Under Strategy 2030, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is committed to state-owned enterprise (SOE) reform in its developing member countries (DMCs).

This book provides an accessible and critical appraisal of Australia's regional energy transition initiatives.

Nanotechnology is a promising technique that can facilitate sustainability across a wide range of areas.

This edition is divided into two parts.

Menschen mit Autismus haben trotz ihrer offensichtlichen Stärken oft Schwierigkeiten, sich in der Gesellschaft zu behaupten.

The current global environmental crisis is primarily the result of non-standardized parameters for environmental regulation, and is impacting e.

This book opens up a critical dimension of energy transition taking in account multidimensional challenges on economic, social and environmental fields.

This book questions the use of salvage law as legal regulatory framework for the remuneration of environmental services in salvage operations, proposing that such services should be based on direct contracting between commercial salvors and coastal States.

Dynamic naturalist Michael Blencowe has travelled the globe to uncover the fascinating backstories of eleven extinct animals, which he shares with charm and insight inGone.

This book is devoted to strengthening the theoretical and methodological basis, systematization of international experience, and scientific elaboration of prospects for developing a climate-smart economy and business as a vector of the sustainable development of Industry 4.

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

This book studies the role of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as an advocate for greater environmental responsibility and analyses the major achievements and outcomes of two landmark conferences - Stockholm (1972) and Rio (1992) - which set the agenda for the future role of the UNEP.

This book studies the role of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as an advocate for greater environmental responsibility and analyses the major achievements and outcomes of two landmark conferences - Stockholm (1972) and Rio (1992) - which set the agenda for the future role of the UNEP.

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.

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Twenty years on from the first edition of Pollution and the topic remains high in the public awareness.

This book focuses on the toxic legacy of Native North America, which is pervasive but largely invisible to most non-Native peoples.

Klimapolitik auf AbwegenViele sind überzeugt, dass echter Klimaschutz nur möglich ist, wenn wir auf wirtschaftliches Wachstum verzichten.

This book focuses on the toxic legacy of Native North America, which is pervasive but largely invisible to most non-Native peoples.

This book summarizes the recent research development concerning olive oil wastewater management: characterization, environmental impact, recovery and treatment.

Partiendo del planteamiento que sostiene que el clima es un factor que incide en diferentes aspectos del territorio tales como la provisión de medios esen-ciales de vida (agua, alimento, energía), la salud humana, la actividad socioe-conómica y los desastres, se propone un marco conceptual y metodológico que es fundamental para abordar los estudios de la relación clima-territorio que deben ser la base o referencia para identificar el impacto potencial de posibles condiciones climáticas futuras (escenarios de cambio climático).

An exploration into the history of our collective response to the challenges of extreme weather conditions and climate.

A study of how the climate crisis is changing human communication from a celebrated rhetorician.

This Element provides novel insight into global climate policy implementation.

Ethical and Responsible Tourism explains the methods and practices used to manage the environmental impact of tourism on local communities and destinations.

Ethical and Responsible Tourism explains the methods and practices used to manage the environmental impact of tourism on local communities and destinations.

'This is a rich, beautiful and deeply moving book' GEORGE MONBIOT'I loved this book' CLOVER STROUDOnce Upon a Raven's Nest is the story of a working class man, one Thomas Hedley of Exmoor, and of the planet during the period of its great acceleration towards the current climate emergency.

This, the third volume in the series Climate Change and Fish Health, describes how finfish in cage culture and their pathogens are directly or indirectly affected by ongoing changes to the environment.

This, the third volume in the series Climate Change and Fish Health, describes how finfish in cage culture and their pathogens are directly or indirectly affected by ongoing changes to the environment.

This book provides an overview of the tropical marine environments of Brazil and a multi-disciplinary assessment of the impact of ongoing climate change in these environments.

This book is a focussed and up-to-date review about the key challenges, trends, implications, strategies, and ways of overcoming, that dynamic and competitive organizations are facing now and increasingly in future by climate change.

Woraus besteht unsere Erde, und wie funktioniert sie?

Un relat sobre com, en assolir la majoria d'edat, l'humanitat pren consciència de les possibilitats de vida a altres mons i la seva sobtada rellevància per al nostre destí a la Terra.

"e;Traveling in time and space across the Arctic, in The big Thaw Ed Struzik describes at first hand the most alarming environmental crisis of our times,.