Pollution

Grey House Publishing, Inc., (compiler.).

Summary: Islands of plastic waste, chemicals from everyday products and prescription drugs, and farm animal waste are all contributing to the destruction of our environment and climate change. Such issues, and the difficulty of solving them, are the subject of this Reference Shelf. Radical plans to artificially cool Earth's climate and to use ocean currents to correct plastic sea pollution are discussed, as well as the difficulty of enforcing environmental protection laws. The impact of China's recent decision to stop buying U.S. recyling is also explored, as are controversial particulate air tests run on humans. -- Publisher

Item details

ISBN: 9781642656046
ISBN: 1642656046
ISBN: 9781642655995
ISBN: 1642655996
Physical Description: print
xiii, 167 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Publisher: Amenia, New York : Grey House Publishing, 2020.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. WATER POLLUTION. The Stuff of Life -- Lethal Algae Blooms--An Ecosystem Out of Balance / Jeremy Hance -- Trump Administration Cuts Back Federal Protections for Streams and Wetlands / Scott Neuman and Colin Dywer -- E.P.A. Is Letting Cities Dump More Raw Sewage into Rivers for Years to Come / Christopher Flavelle -- Great Lakes Waters at Risk from Buried Contaminants and New Threats / Robert M. L. McKay, Joel E. Gagnon, John Hartig, et al. -- The Missing 99%: Why Can't We Find the Vast Majority of Ocean Plastic? / Stephen Buranyi -- Plastic Bags Were Finally Being Banned: Then Came the Pandemic / Jasmin Malik Chua