"Industrial pollution" refers to the release of harmful substances or waste materials into the environment by industries and factories. It includes pollution caused by various industrial activities like emissions from factories, discharge of chemicals and waste, and improper disposal of industrial byproducts. Overall, it refers to the contamination of air, water, and land due to industrial practices, which can have negative effects on both human health and the environment.
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How ironic, then, that the world's second favourite liquid after oil is under threat from climate change caused
by industrial pollution.
To begin with,
industrial pollution in developing countries is releasing hazardous chemicals that impact vital water resources.
If industrial pollution with carbon dioxide keeps at its present - day 5 - 7 billion metric tons a year, it will not change global temperatures up to the year 2100.
Unfortunately some communities suffer more harm from things
like industrial pollution and the health issues that come along with it.
The researchers can therefore filter out both volcanic eruptions and forest fires in the assessment
of industrial pollution and the new results are revolutionary.
«The 1940 - 76 decrease is explained by the effect of particles
from industrial pollution reflecting sunlight back into space»
Losing Ground broadened the near - exclusive focus in the environmental community
on industrial pollution in the developed world to include deforestation, overgrazing, soil erosion, desertification, and other environmental threats in the developing world.
The Onondaga County Industrial Development Agency has agreed to purchase a site along Onondaga Lake that has been contaminated by
industrial pollution for years.
Blackman's work on
industrial pollution control analyzes public disclosure programs, economic incentive instruments, and voluntary regulation.
Many farmers suffered huge losses
as industrial pollution wiped out the three most vital elements of their livelihood: clean air, soil, and water.
A parallel paper in the same journal by researchers from the University of Liverpool shows that this same gene also caused the peppered moth to turn black during the mid-19th century, when it evolved to find new ways to camouflage itself; a side - effect of
industrial pollution at the time.
Emissions of ozone - depleting chemicals in places like China are especially damaging because of cold - air surges in East Asia that can quickly
carry industrial pollution into the tropics.
The 1940 - 76 decrease is explained by the effect of particles from
industrial pollution reflecting sunlight back into space (which contrasts with C02 which lets direct sunlight through, but traps radiation emitted back from the earth's surface).
The pattern is consistent
with industrial pollution, but not very consistent with crop chemicals (note the absence of hotspots in the CA central valley or Iowa) or GMOs.
According to Co.Design, the riverfront has been revitalized to the point where real estate has become quite valuable, leading the two designers to suggest a project that will help reinstate the river back to its former glory as a popular swimming and skating venue, before
industrial pollution took its toll.
The nation, straining under accusations of
rampant industrial pollution and unchecked carbon emissions, last month unveiled a new conservation strategy for safeguarding its plant
Pollution disclosure has been one of the most effective and low - cost policy tools to
reduce industrial pollution in developed countries.
Those cuts would eliminate 3,200 jobs at EPA, end all climate science research, and slash funding for the
Superfund industrial pollution cleanup program, she said.
Crowding, unsafe drinking water, bad sanitation, harsh working conditions and
industrial pollution made them sicker than their cousins back home in the countryside and shortened their life spans.
How Mercury Gets into Seafood Scientists have known how mercury from
industrial pollution affects local freshwater ecosystems and poses a human health threat [see «Mapping Mercury»; SciAm, September 2005].
In this detailed and balanced account, Fagin explores the complexities of links
between industrial pollution and childhood cancers at Toms River, New Jersey.
[Henry W. Lin, Gonzalo Gonzalez Abad and Abraham Loeb,
Detecting industrial pollution in the atmospheres of Earth - like exoplanets] CFCs could hang around in a planet's atmosphere for a long time.
The unusually noxious haze was caused by several factors,
including industrial pollution and auto emissions trapped by cold, windless weather, said Xu Bin, an associate professor at Shanghai's Tongji University.
The presentation that Prof. Adam Frank found depressing was focused on Soon's long - since - discredited thesis that the Sun,
not industrial pollution, is responsible for climate change.
Areas with
excessive industrial pollution, such as China (where nearly 90 percent of the world's green tea is produced), may contain substantial amounts of lead.
Along with cinematographer Simon Dennis and production designer Grant Montgomery, Medina envisions how the otherworldly greens and browns spawned by
industrial pollution combine with lowering clouds and gaslight to permeate the whole metropolitan area with a crepuscular aura.
In the late 1960s, a fire on the Cuyohoga River in Cleveland as a result of
industrial pollution became a galvanizing image in the environmental movement and was credited in part with garnering the s...
Misrach chose the Mississippi River industrial corridor between Baton Rouge and New Orleans — a 150 mile span that has been exploited relentlessly by the oil industry since the 1960s and is known alternately as the River Road, Chemical Corridor, and Cancer Alley — to examine human impact upon the landscape, and the detrimental effects of
industrial pollution upon the region's inhabitants.
(Decades later, scientists would confirm that
soaring industrial pollution had in fact contributed to temporary Northern Hemisphere cooling.)
The lieutenant governor wants to accelerate California's plans to produce energy from renewable sources, take even more gas - powered cars off the roaed, and continue using the cap - and - trade program to
cut industrial pollution.
Hilton Kelley is an environmental justic leader at the forefront of the fight to protect communities from
harmful industrial pollution on the Texas Gulf Coast.