Pollution & Threats to the Environment

Even with all the advances in technologies, humans continue to suffer from the consequences of flooding century after century. This book covers two...

Remediation of contaminated soils is one of the most important environmental issues. Chemical soil degradation affects 12% of all degraded soils in...

Human activity is strictly linked with the production of waste, i.e., materials and substances that are undesired and cannot be used further. On th...

Water quality is the physical, chemical and biological characteristics of water. It is most frequently used by reference to a set of standards agai...

This book provides selected authorship on anthropogenic impacts caused by arsenic, lead, chromium and other pollutants and contaminants emanating f...

This book assesses the state of the science on the environmental impacts of mountaintop mines and valley fills (MTM-VF) on streams in the Central A...

Carbon capture and sequestration (or storage) -- known as CCS -- has attracted congressional interest as a measure for mitigating global climate ch...

This book presents research reports about theon quantification of heavy metals in tissues of stranded bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) from...