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04941aam a22005054i 4500 001 65AF383C35FE11EBA5F7CB3429ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20201204010015 008 201008s2020 nyua b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1642656046 020 $a 9781642656046 040 $a XBM $b eng $c XBM $d GZN $d SGB $d SILO 050 4 $a TD174 $b .P65 2020 245 00 $a Pollution / $c [compiled by Grey House Publishing]. 264 1 $a Amenia, New York : $b Grey House Publishing, $c 2020. 300 $a xiii, 167 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 20 cm. 490 1 $a The reference shelf / H.W. Wilson, a Division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; $v volume 92, number 5 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 $t Plastic Bags Were Finally Being Banned: Then Came the Pandemic / $t The Stuff of Life -- $t Lethal Algae Blooms--An Ecosystem Out of Balance / $r Jasmin Malik Chua $t Trump Administration Cuts Back Federal Protections for Streams and Wetlands / $r Scott Neuman and Colin Dywer -- $t E.P.A. Is Letting Cities Dump More Raw Sewage into Rivers for Years to Come / $r Christopher Flavelle -- $t Great Lakes Waters at Risk from Buried Contaminants and New Threats / $r Robert M. L. McKay, Joel E. Gagnon, John Hartig, et al. -- $t The Missing 99%: Why Can't We Find the Vast Majority of Ocean Plastic? / $r Stephen Buranyi -- $t Plastic Bags Were Finally Being Banned: Then Came the Pandemic / $r Jasmin Malik Chua 505 00 $t Trump Dismantles Environmental Protections under Cover of Coronavirus / $t 2. Waiting to Inhale. $t What Causes Asthma? Clues from London's Great Smog with Implications for Air Pollution Today / $r Douglas Brugge and James Lane. $t Air Pollution Could Make the COVID-19 Pandemic Worse for Some People / $r Justine Calma -- $t Black People Are Dying from the Coronavirus--Air Pollution Is One of the Main Culprits / $r Jared Dewese -- $t Trump Dismantles Environmental Protections under Cover of Coronavirus / $r Emily Holden -- Fine Particle Air Pollution Is a Public Health Emergency Hiding in Plain Sight / $r Douglas Brugge and James Lane. 505 00 $t 3. WASTE AND LAND CONSERVATION. 3. Wasted Lands. 60% of Superfund Sites Could Be Hit by Climate Change, New Government Report Finds -- Plastic Recycling Is Broken: Why Does Big Plastic Want Cities to Get $1 Billion to Fix It? -- Four Things You Didn't Know about Nuclear Waste -- On Nuclear Waste, Finland Shows U.S. How It Can Be Done -- How a Nuclear Stalemate Left Radioactive Waste Stranded on a California Beach. 505 00 $t 4. SIDE EFFECTS. Is Noise Pollution the Next Big Public-Health Crisis? -- Noise Pollution Hurts Wildlife, but States Have Trouble Turning Down the Volume -- Light Pollution Is a Big Problem, But You Can Help -- The Vanishing Night: Light Pollution Threatens Ecosystems -- Where Light Pollution Is Seeping into the Rural Night Sky. 505 00 $t 5. LOOKING AHEAD. 5. Finding Solutions. Helping the Environment, One Small Sensor at a Time -- Ocean Cleanup Won't Turn a Profit, But We Should Still Do It -- China Could Wash Away Smog with Artificial Rain Storms from Skyscrapers -- Pulling CO2 Out of the Air and Using It Could Be a Trillion-Dollar Business -- This Bicycle Will Clean Polluted Air While You Pedal -- What If Air Conditioners Could Help Save the Planet Instead of Destroying It?. Bibliography. Websites. 520 $a 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 650 0 $a Pollution. 650 0 $a Refuse and refuse disposal. 650 0 $a Climatic changes. 650 0 $a Environmental policy. 650 7 $a Climatic changes. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00864229 650 7 $a Environmental policy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00913250 650 7 $a Pollution. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01070069 650 7 $a Refuse and refuse disposal. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01092888 655 7 $a Reference works. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919963 655 7 $a Reference works. $2 lcgft 710 2 $a Grey House Publishing, Inc., $e compiler. 830 0 $a Reference shelf ; $v v. 92, no. 5. 941 $a 6 952 $l SMPE094 $d 20240104020200.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230405011352.0 952 $l HYAX325 $d 20211118094641.0 $m HYAX325 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722063758.0 952 $l GAAX314 $d 20210416010041.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20201204010905.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=65AF383C35FE11EBA5F7CB3429ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search