Contributor
Grey House Publishing, Inc. compiler.
Imprint:Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing , 2020.
Imprint2020.
Description1 online resource (xiii, 167 pages) : illustrations.
Note: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 -- Waiting -- What Causes Asthma? Clues from London's Great Smog with Implications for Air Pollution Today / Jamie T. Mullins -- Air Pollution Could Make the COVID-19 Pandemic Worse for Some People / Justine Calma -- Black People Are Dying from the Coronavirus - Air Pollution is One of the Main Culprits / Jared Dewese -- Trump Dismantles Environmental Protections under Cover of Coronavirus / Emily Holden -- Fine Particle Air Pollution Is a Public Health Emergency Hiding in Plain Sight / Douglas Brugge and James Lane -- Wasted Lands -- 60% of Superfund Sites Could Be Hit by Climate Change, New Government Report Finds / Dino Grandoni and Brady Dennis -- Plastic Recycling is Broken: Why Does Big Plastic Want Cities to Get $1 Billion to Fix It? / Shannon Osaka -- Four Things You Didn't Know about Nuclear Waste / Laura Leay -- On Nuclear Waste, Finland Shows U.S. How It can Be Done / Henry Fountain -- How a Nuclear Stalemate Left Radioactive Waste Stranded on a California Beach / Rachel Becker -- Hidden Dimensions -- Is Noise Pollution the Next Big Public-Health Crisis? / David Owen -- Noise Pollution Hurts Wildlife, but States have Trouble Turning Down the Volume / Alex Brown -- Light Pollution is a Big Problem, But You Can Help / Joe Rao -- The Vanishing Night: Light Pollution Threatens Ecosystems / Diana Kwon -- Where Light Pollution is Seeping into the Rural Night Sky / Linda Poon -- Finding Solutions -- Helping the Environment, One Small Sensor at a Time / Ellen Rosen -- Ocean Cleanup Won't Turn a Profit, But We Should Still Do It / Peter King -- China Could Wash Away Smog with Artificial Rain Storms from Skyscrapers / Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan -- Pulling CO2 Out of the Air and Using It Could Be a Trillion-Dollar Business / David Roberts -- This Bicycle Will Clean Polluted Air While You Pedal / Nick Mafi -- What if Air Conditioners Could Help Save the Planet Instead of Destroying It? / Matt Simon.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographic references.
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