Featured Books & eBooks - Pollution
Marine Pollution: Sources, Fate and Effects of Pollutants in Coastal Ecosystems by ISBN: 9780128137369Publication Date: 2018Written by a renowned expert in the field who is a researcher, teacher and advisor of national and international institutions on issues such as oil spills, water quality assessment and plastic pollution, this book offers a thorough account of the effects of pollutants on marine organisms, the relevant environmental regulations, and the public health implications, along with the biological tools advocated by the international institutions for marine pollution monitoring. Marine Pollution: Sources, Fate and Effects presents information in a detailed and didactic manner, reviewing the latest scientific knowledge alongside examples of practical applications.
The Silent Epidemic: Coal and the Hidden Threat to Health by Call Number: TD195.C58 L63ISBN: 9780262017893Publication Date: 2012We will not find "exposure to burning coal" listed as the cause of death on a single death certificate, but tens of thousands of deaths from asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer, heart attacks, strokes, and other illnesses are clearly linked to coal-derived pollution. As politicians and advertising campaigns extol the virtues of "clean coal," the dirty secret is that coal kills. In The Silent Epidemic, Alan Lockwood, a physician, describes and documents the adverse health effects of burning coal and examines each aspect of its production—from mining, transporting, burning, and disposal—each of which generates significant health concerns.
Marine Pollution: What Everyone Needs to Know by Call Number: GC1085 .W45ISBN: 9780199996681Publication Date: 2014Marine pollution occurs today in varied forms—chemical, industrial, and agricultural—and from many sources. In recent history, we've seen oil spills, untreated sewage, eutrophication, invasive species, heavy metals, acidification, radioactive substances, and marine litter, among other significant problems. Though marine pollution has long been a topic of concern, it has very recently exploded in environmental, economic, and political debate circles; scientists and non-scientists alike continue to be shocked and dismayed at the sheer diversity of water pollutants and the many ways they can come to harm our environment and our bodies. In this primer, Judith Weis covers marine pollution from many different angles, explains why exactly it is harmful, and how we can prevent it from destroying our aquatic ecosystems.
Pollution by Call Number: TD174.P923ISBN: 9780737756340Publication Date: 2012These essays, collected from a variety of perspectives, tackle important questions related to pollution and its effects, including how air and water pollution may affect environmental and human health, what impact can be achieved through environmental remediation efforts, how pollution exacerbates (and results from) global warming, and what solutions may be on the horizon.
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Allin, Craig. Water & Water Pollution. (2011) - eBook
Gerdes, Louise (Ed.). Pollution. (2011) - TD883 .P582
Gessner, David. Tarball Chronicles: A Journey Beyond the Oiled Pelican and into the Heart of the Gulf Oil Spill.(2011) - TD427.P4 G47
Allin, Craig (Ed.). Atmosphere & Air Pollution. (2011) - RA576 .A85
Hidy, George. Technical Challenges of Multipollutant Air Quality Management. (2011) - eBook
Lioy, Paul. Dust: The Inside Story of Its Role in the September 11th Aftermath. (2010) - TD884.5 .L568
Miller, Debra (Ed.). Pollution. (2007) - TD883 .P58
Shareefdeen, Zarook & Ajay Singh (Eds.). Biotechnology for Odor and Air Pollution. (2005) - eBook
Nakaya, Andrea (Ed.). Is Air Pollution a Serious Threat to Health? (2005) - RA576.I686
References
Gates, Alexander & Robert Blauvelt (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Pollution. (2011) - Ref TD173 .G38
Matthews, Dawn (Ed.). Environmental Health Sourcebook. (2003) - RA565 .E484
The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want: A Book About Noise by ISBN: 9781610391108Publication Date: 2012Noise is usually defined as unwanted sound: loud music from a neighbor, the honk of a taxicab, the roar of a supersonic jet. But as Garret Keizer illustrates in this probing examination, noise is as much about what we want as about what we seek to avoid. In a journey that leads us from the primeval Tanzanian veldt to wind farms in Maine, Keizer invites us to listen to noise in history, in popular culture, and not least of all in our own backyards. He follows noise throughout history and across the globe. He considers what it has to tell us about today’s most pressing issues, from social inequality to climate change. The result is guaranteed to change how we hear the world, and how we measure our own personal volume within it.
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McCarthy, Elena. International Regulation of Underwater Sound: Establishing Rules & Standards to Address Ocean Noise Pollution. (2004) - eBook
Mizon, Bob. Light Pollution: Responses & Remedies. (2002) - QB51.3.L53 M59
Web Resources
International Dark Sky Association. Light Pollution and Outdoor Lighting Basics.
Toxic Cocktail: How Chemical Pollution Is Poisoning Our Brains by Call Number: QP188.T54 D46ISBN: 9780190260934Publication Date: 2017In today's world, everyone carries a toxic load of dozens of industrially produced chemicals in their bloodstream. Not only do these adversely affect the health of adults and children, but they also damage the development of unborn infants through a cascade of endocrine disruptions. The urgent question thus arises: Is chemical pollution poisoning brain development and reversing evolution's most outstanding achievement: the human brain? And if so, as this book convincingly illuminates, what can be done about it both collectively and individually? Toxic Cocktail provides a clear view of how many environmental chemicals interfere with brain development.
Chemicals by Call Number: TD176.7 .C474ISBN: 9780737772487Publication Date: 2015Four main questions are evaluated across four chapters of essays: What Threats Do Chemicals Pose to the Environment and Public Health? What Can Lead to Dangerous Levels of Toxic Chemical Exposure? How Are Chemicals Endangering the Water and Food Supply? How Should the Government Protect Americans from Toxic Chemicals? Readers are treated to more than one viewpoint about each topic and subtopic, allowing them to think critically about their own opinions. Essay sources include the Harvard Health Letter, Sadhbh Walshe, and Karl Grossman.
Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution & the EPA by Call Number: TD170.93 .V3ISBN: 9781608199143Publication Date: 2014For twenty-five years E.G. Vallianatos saw the EPA from the inside, with rising dismay over how pressure from politicians and threats from prominent corporations were turning it from the public's watchdog into a "polluter's protection agency." Based on his own experience, the testimony of colleagues, and hundreds of documents Vallianatos collected inside the EPA, Poison Spring reveals how the agency has continually reinforced the chemical-industrial complex.
DDT and the American Century: Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide that Changed the World by Call Number: SB952.D2 K56ISBN: 9780807835098Publication Date: 2011Praised for its ability to kill insects effectively and cheaply and reviled as an ecological hazard, DDT continues to engender passion across the political spectrum as one of the world's most controversial chemical pesticides. In DDT and the American Century, David Kinkela chronicles the use of DDT around the world from 1941 to the present with a particular focus on the United States, which has played a critical role in encouraging the global use of the pesticide. Kinkela's study offers a unique approach to understanding both this contentious chemical and modern environmentalism in an international context.
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Levine, Marvin. Pesticides: A Toxic Time Bomb in Our Midst. (2007) - eBook
Arapis, Gerassimos; Nadezhda Goncharova; & Philippe Baveye (Eds.). Ecotoxicology, Ecological Risk Assessment and Multiple Stressors. (2006) - eBook
Grossman, Elizabeth. High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health. (2006) - TD799.85 .G76
Lichtfouse, Eric; Robert, Didier; & Schwarzbauer, Jan. Environmental Chemistry: Green Chemistry and Pollutants in Ecosystems. (2005) - eBook
Johansen, Bruce. Dirty Dozen: Toxic Chemicals and the Earth's Future. (2003) - TD196.C5 J65
Junk Raft: An Ocean Voyage and a Rising Tide of Activism to Fight Plastic Pollution by Call Number: GC1471.E75ISBN: 9780807056400Publication Date: 2017News media brought the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" into the public consciousness, but when Marcus Eriksen cofounded the 5 Gyres Institute with his wife, Anna Cummins, and set out to study the world's oceans with hundreds of volunteers, they discovered a "plastic smog" of microscopic debris that permeates our oceans across the entire globe, defying simple clean-up efforts. What's more, these microplastics and their toxic chemistry have seeped into the food chain, threatening marine life and humans alike. Far from being a gloomy treatise on an environmental catastrophe, though, Junk Raft tells the exciting story of Eriksen and his team's fight to solve the problem of global plastic pollution.
Plastic-Free: How I Kicked the Plastic Habit and You Can Too by Call Number: TD196.P85T47ISBN: 9781616086244Publication Date: 2012Like many people, Beth Terry didn't think an individual could have much impact on the environment. But while laid up after surgery, she read an article about the staggering amount of plastic polluting the oceans and decided then and there to kick her plastic habit. Now she wants to teach you how you can too. In her quirky and humorous style—well known to the readers of her popular blog, My Plastic-Free Life—Terry provides personal anecdotes, stats about the environmental and health problems related to plastic, and personal solutions and tips on how to limit your plastic footprint.
Remediation Measures for Radioactively Contaminated Areas by ISBN: 9783319733975Publication Date: 2018Remediation strategies for radioactively contaminated sites are in this comprehensive volume for researchers and students alike. Primary topics include radioecology, safe disposal of radioactive waste, decontamination, remediation legacies and impact of radioactive waste material on the environment. The chapters provide overviews of various original publications on remediation strategies that were explored after the Chernobyl and Fukushima Nuclear Power plant accidents. Useful case studies are provided that explore the latest technological developments and future trends for affected area decontamination.
Fallout: Disasters, Lies, and the Legacy of the Nuclear Age by Call Number: TD196.R3 P43ISBN: 9780807092491Publication Date: 2018From Hiroshima to Chernobyl, Fukushima to the growing legacy of lethal radioactive waste, humanity's struggle to conquer atomic energy is rife with secrecy, deceit, human error, blatant disregard for life, short-sighted politics, and fear. Fallout is an eye-opening odyssey through the first eight decades of this struggle and the radioactive landscapes it has left behind. We are, Fred Pearce finds, forever torn between technological hubris and all-too-human terror about what we have created. For any reader who craves a clear-headed examination of the tangled relationship between a powerful technology and human politics, foibles, fears, and arrogance, Fallout is the definitive look at humanity's nuclear adventure.
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Pasternak, Judy. Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed. (2010) - E99.N3 P378
Smith, Jim. Chernoyl: Catastrophe & Consequences. (2005) - TD196.R3 S64
Harvie, David. Deadly Sunshine: The History and Fatal Legacy of Radium. (2005) - QD181.R1 H37
Biostimulation Remediation Technologies for Groundwater Contaminants by ISBN: 9781522541622Publication Date: 2018The rapid progression of technology has significantly impacted population growth, urbanization, and industrialization in modern society. These developments, while positive on the surface, have created critical environmental problems in recent years. Biostimulation Remediation Technologies for Groundwater Contaminants is a critical scholarly publication that examines the release of heavy metals into the environment as a result of human activities and the use of nanoparticles and other technologies to manage and treat the effects of the pollution. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as toxicity of heavy metals, bioremediation, and acclimated bacterial strains, this book is geared toward environmentalists, engineers, academics, researchers, and students seeking current research on bioremediation as an alternate way to manage or degrade heavy metal waste.
Mycoremediation and Environmental Sustainability (Vols. 1 & 2) by ISBN: 9783319689562Publication Date: 2018Bioremediation is the use of microorganisms' metabolism to degrade waste contaminants—such as sewage, domestic, and industrial effluents—into non-toxic or less toxic materials by natural biological processes. Because fungi have the biochemical and ecological capability to degrade environmental organic chemicals and to decrease the risk associated with metals, semi-metals, noble metals, and radionuclides, remediation through fungi (or mycoremediation) has many possibilities in applied remediation engineering and the future of environmental sustainability. This book covers the various types of fungi and associated fungal processes used to clean up waste and wastewaters in contaminated environments and discusses future potential applications.
Constructed Wetlands for Industrial Wastewater Treatment by ISBN: 9781119268345Publication Date: 2018Constructed Wetlands for Industrial Wastewater Treatment contains a review of the state-of-the-art applications of constructed wetland technology for industrial wastewater treatment. This green technology offers many economic, environmental, and societal advantages. The text examines the many unique uses and the effectiveness of constructed wetlands for the treatment of complex and heavily polluted wastewater from various industrial sources. An international team of experts presents vivid examples of the current state of constructed wetlands in the industrial sector, with applications in the oil and gas industry, agro-industries, paper mills, pharmaceutical industry, textile industry, winery, brewery, sludge treatment and much more.
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Maczulak, Anne. Cleaning Up the Environment: Hazardous Waste Technology. (2009) - eBook
Calabrese, Edward; Paul Kostecki; & James Dragun. Contaminated Soils, Sediments & Water: Volume 10 - Successes & Challenges. (2006) - eBook
Margesin, Rosa & Franz Schinner (Eds.). Manual for Soil Analysis: Monitoring & Assessing Soil Bioremediation. (2005) - eBook
Committee on Superfund Site Assessment and Remediation in the Coeur d'Alene River Basin. Superfund and Mining Megasites: Lessons from the Coeur D'Alene River Basin. (2005) - eBook
Lehr, Jay. Wiley's Remediation Technologies Handbook: Major Contaminant Chemicals and Chemical Groups. (2004) - eBook