Pollution
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Arctic Ozone Hole: A Potential Earth Changer
The hole in the ozone over Antarctica has been well documented but a new hole was recently spotted over the North Pole. The existence of this new Arctic hole didn’t surprise scientists but it is cause for concern. A hole at the top of the world...By October 24, 2011
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Understanding & Preventing Water & Air Pollution
All creation needs two vital resources: air and water. Protecting, preserving, and recovering those resources is a task essential to the preservation of life for humans, plants and animals alike.By September 22, 2011
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What Constitutes Noise Pollution and Should we be Concerned About It?
What exactly is noise pollution? How would one go about measuring it? Is it dangerous or just annoying? What can be done to reduce it? We’ll answer these questions and many more in this full guide to noise pollution.By September 17, 2011
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The Cancer Connection: How Environmental Contaminants and Industrial Carcinogens Affect Public Health
The NCI has the resources to undertake researches for gathering data to be used for cancer prevention and protection. Yet, despite the establishment of links between the leading causes of cancer and environmental contaminants as well as industrial carcinogens...By September 1, 2011
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Effects of Pesticides on the Environment & Human Health
Pesticides are designed to control pests and disease-causing organisms, and while this offers some benefits to society, the downside is that they are by their very nature, harmful to all living organisms that are exposed to them. Let's take a look...By July 22, 2011
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Understanding the Meaning of Photochemical Smog
Photochemical smog is an invisible pocket of gas that can contain extremely dangerous levels of tropospheric ozone. Volatile gases including peroxyacetylnitrate (PAN) and other toxic gases that can cause serious respiratory illness accompany this...By July 13, 2011
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Voyage to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
A team of scientists and volunteers take a three-week research voyage into The Great Pacific Garbage Patch.By July 8, 2011
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Changes called for EPA's Stormwater management program
The National Research Council (NRC) committee recommends that EPA adopt a watershed-based permitting system that would encompass all discharges -- including stormwater and wastewater -- that impact waterways in a particular drainage basin, rather...By June 27, 2011
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Learn about the Effects of Acid Rain on Plants and Trees
Studies of wood cores provided evidence of acid rain effects on plants & trees,dating as far back as the 1950s.The findings did not come as a surprise since large amounts of acid depositions were attributed to machine inventions fueled via coal burning...By May 30, 2011
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An Introduction to Primary, Secondary, and Advanced Wastewater Treatment Methods
Wastewater treatment plants may use primary, secondary, and/or tertiary (advanced) treatment. Primary wastewater treatment is sedimentation. Secondary treatment is typically biological oxidation to remove biochemical oxygen demand. Advanced...By May 24, 2011