Download or read book Polluted Rain written by Taft Y. Toribara and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the twelfth in a series of conferences on environmental toxicity sponsored by the Department of Radiation Biology and Bio physics. The topics selected are intended to be of timely interest with a focus somewhat different from those with with similar titles. I would like to share with you some of the thought which went into the development of this year's program. Everyone here is aware of the great amount of publicity being given to some phase of this year's topic of "Polluted Rain", but I wonder how many of the younger generation realize how the entire world got into this kind of predicament. I can remember as a young ster that precipitation from the sky in the form of rain or snow was considered one of the ultimates in purity. That was in the era when a small number of automobiles were in use and the airplane was more of a curiosity in the developmental stage than anything of commer cial significance. Many homes used iceboxes for refrigeration, and summer cooling was accomplished by electric fans by the more afflu ent families.
Download or read book Acid rain and transported air pollutants implications for public policy written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1984 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Polluted Air written by Angela Royston and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2008 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes pollution and the problem of pollution, discussing how human activities affect the problem.
Download or read book Acid Rain and Transported Air Pollutants written by United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Acid Rain written by John D. Baines and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the vast contamination of forests and lakes throughout the world by the acidity in the rainfall.
Download or read book Acid Rain and Transported Air Pollutants written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poisonous Skies written by Rachel Emma Rothschild and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The climate change reckoning looms. As scientists try to discern what the Earth’s changing weather patterns mean for our future, Rachel Rothschild seeks to understand the current scientific and political debates surrounding the environment through the history of another global environmental threat: acid rain. The identification of acid rain in the 1960s changed scientific and popular understanding of fossil fuel pollution’s potential to cause regional—and even global—environmental harms. It showed scientists that the problem of fossil fuel pollution was one that crossed borders—it could travel across vast stretches of the earth’s atmosphere to impact ecosystems around the world. This unprecedented transnational reach prompted governments, for the first time, to confront the need to cooperate on pollution policies, transforming environmental science and diplomacy. Studies of acid rain and other pollutants brought about a reimagining of how to investigate the natural world as a complete entity, and the responses of policy makers, scientists, and the public set the stage for how societies have approached other prominent environmental dangers on a global scale, most notably climate change. Grounded in archival research spanning eight countries and five languages, as well as interviews with leading scientists from both government and industry, Poisonous Skies is the first book to examine the history of acid rain in an international context. By delving deep into our environmental past, Rothschild hopes to inform its future, showing us how much is at stake for the natural world as well as what we risk—and have already risked—by not acting.
Download or read book Acid Rain written by Carter N. Lane and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Acid rain' is a broad term used to describe several ways that acids fall out of the atmosphere. A more precise term is acid deposition, which has two parts: wet and dry. Wet deposition refers to acidic rain, fog, and snow. As this acidic water flows over and through the ground, it affects a variety of plants and animals. The strength of the effects depends on many factors, including how acidic the water is, the chemistry and buffering capacity of the soils involved, and the types of fish, trees, and other living things that rely on the water. Dry deposition refers to acidic gases and particles. About half of the acidity in the atmosphere falls back to earth through dry deposition. The wind blows these acidic particles and gases onto buildings, cars, homes, and trees. Dry deposited gases and particles can also be washed from trees and other surfaces by rainstorms. When that happens, the runoff water adds those acids to the acid rain, making the combination more acidic than the falling rain alone. Prevailing winds blow the compounds that cause both wet and dry acid deposition across state and national borders, and sometimes over hundreds of miles. This new book combines an excellent background article with over 900 abstracts and book citations. Easy access is provided by title, author, and subject indexes.
Download or read book Acid Rain written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Insulators for Icing and Polluted Environments written by Masoud Farzaneh and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-11-20 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to correct icing and pollution problems in electrical line insulation Written by prominent experts in the field, this book takes an in-depth look at the issues of electrical insulators for icing and polluted environments. It shows: Engineers and environmental specialists how to carry out appropriate insulator contamination measurements, understand how these readings change with time and weather, and work out how the readings compare with the upper limits set by insulator dimensions in their existing stations Design engineers how to assess the likely maximum pollution and icing limits at a substation or along an overhead line, and then select insulators that have appropriate withstand margins Regulators why modest ice accretion at a moderate 0oC temperature on one occasion can qualify as a major reliability event day, while many similar days pass each winter without power system problems Educators why the ice surface flashover is well behaved compared to the conventional pollution flashover, making it much more suitable for demonstrations, modeling, and analysis The book is complemented with case studies and design equations to help readers identify the most appropriate insulators, bushings, and maintenance plans for their local conditions. Additionally, readers may download supplemental materials supporting evaluation of local climate and contamination. Insulators for Icing and Polluted Environments is indispensable reading for any professional who needs reliable electrical supply from networks exposed to sources of wetting and pollution. It also serves as an excellent introduction to the subjects of high-voltage surface flashover, environmental electrochemistry, and insulation coordination for researchers, professors, and students.
Download or read book Troubled Skies Troubled Waters written by Jon R. Luoma and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1985 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the acid rain phenomenon discusses the causes and critical environmental implications of acid rain pollution and evaluates the rationale behind political inactivity regarding this world-wide problem.
Download or read book Acid Rain written by Environmental Resources Limited and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report examines the extent of environmental damage in the Community and in certain other European countries that may be attributable to acid pollutant emissions within Member States. The study assesses the evidence for possible causal effects and considers the physical, chemical and biological processes which have been suggested as damage mechanisms. Concern in Europe has grown in the past few years as a result of observed damage to forests found principally in central and southern Germany, and also because of the loss of fish populations in the lakes of parts of south west Norway and Sweden. More recently, a few lakes, rivers and streams in Scotland, England and Wales, with geological and upper river catchments similar in character to those areas of Scandinavia referred to, have also reported absence or death of fish. Acid precipitation is considered a possible contributory cause. Loss of needles from pine trees has also been found in other areas of the Community. Less well appreciated is the existence of damage to building materials, caused by short range acid pollutant effects and the possibility under certain conditions that yields of some crops and vegetables are affected by the dry deposition of acid pollutants and their derivative products. Historically most attention has focused on S02, and its oxidised 'wet' form, sulphuric acid. Overall emissions of S02 in the Community have declined in the last ten years and this trend may well continue.
Download or read book Acid Rain and Transported Air Pollutants written by and published by Unipub. This book was released on 1985 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The policy dilemma -- Transported air pollutants: the risks of damage and the risks of control -- The pollutants of concern -- The regional distribution of risks -- Policy options -- Legislating emissions reductions.
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Download or read book Effects of atmospheric pollution on forest ecosystems written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on General Oversight, Northwest Power, and Forest Management and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Pollution and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus written by Sultan Ayoub Meo and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental Pollution and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus is a novel resource to understand the global impact of environmental pollution and how it increases diabetes mellitus. Over the past three decades, environmental pollution has been an emerging global public health problem in developing and developed nations. The swift urbanization and industrial revolution increased environmental pollution to a hazardous level. Environmental pollution is a leading risk factor for several well-known diseases. This book opens venues for students, physicians, researchers, the science community, and policymakers to enhance their knowledge about environmental pollution, weather conditions, climate change, and their impact on insulin resistance and mechanisms allied to Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Moreover, this book will provide knowledge about the green space environment and its impact on T2DM. Offers unique scientific information, facts, and figures about environmental pollution and T2DM Highlights the air pollution condition of different countries on various continents and mechanisms allied to developing T2DM Provides information about countries highly polluted and countries less polluted, along with the epidemiological trends of T2DM
Download or read book Phytomanagement of Polluted Sites written by Vimal Chandra Pandey and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phytomanagement of Polluted Sites: Market Opportunities in Sustainable Phytoremediation brings together recent and established knowledge on different aspects of phytoremediation, providing this information in a single source that offers a cutting-edge synthesis of scientific and experiential knowledge on industrially contaminated site restoration that is useful for both practitioners and scientists. The book gives interested groups, both non-profit and for-profit, methods to manage dumpsites and other contaminated areas, including tactics on how to mitigate costs and even profit from ecological restoration. Covers successful examples of turning industrially contaminated sites into ecologically healthy revenue producers Explores examples of phytomanagement of dumpsites from around the globe Provides the tools the reader needs to select specific plant species according to site specificity
