Pollution is no longer just about belching smokestacks and ugly sewer pipes—now, it’s personal. The most dangerous pollution, it turns out, comes from commonplace items in our homes and workplaces. To prove this point, for one week authors Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie ingested and inhaled a host of things that surround all of us. Using their own bodies as the reference point to tell the story of pollution in our modern world, they expose the miscreant corporate giants who manufacture the toxins, the weak-kneed government officials who let it happen, and the effects on people and families across the globe.
Disney Educational - Bill Nye The Science Guy: Pollution Solutions
Humans are messy; we dump nonbiodegradable products that choke landfills and leave toxic wastes, pesticides, and other hazardous substances all over the world. In outer space, there is debris from rockets and satellites, in addition to trash from space shuttles. The pollution situation is getting worse, and the Science Guy is very concerned. In Bill Nye the Science Guy: Pollution Solution, he explains to his audience that humans need to find ways to cut down on the things that are polluting the air, land, and water supplies of the Earth if the planet is to survive.
Every day the Earth's air, sea, and land become more and more polluted, and the effect of pollution on our health, and even the danger to our lives, is increasing. This book looks at the problems and some of the things we can do to solve them.
Analysing the regulation of vessel-source pollution from the perspective of the political interests of key players in the ship transportation industry, Alan Khee-Jin Tan offers a comprehensive and convincing account of how pollution of the marine environment by ships may be better regulated and reduced
This book describes the development of cost effective abatement strategies aimed at the control of air pollutant emissions in Europe, with a focus on ground level ozone.
