Although the federal government has played a significant role in developing water quality regulations and standards for municipal and industrial (M...

Recent catastrophic breaks in water mains and sewer discharges during storms are indicators of the nation’s old and deteriorating water and wastewa...

Climate change poses a variety of challenges for water management, and there is a need to develop methods for understanding and managing risk. Whil...

A watershed is the area of land from which precipitation or surface water flow is drained into a receiving water body. The term is roughly analogou...

This book focuses on the geostationary weather satellites and polar weather satellites. Geostationary environmental satellites play a critical role...

Freshwater wetlands are an integral part of central Florida, where thousands are distributed across the landscape. However, their relatively small ...

Chapter 1 develops a better understanding of the health impacts of wildfires and what should be done to minimise those impacts. It looks closely at...

Severe wildfires have been burning more area and more houses in recent years. Some assert that climate change is at least partly to blame; others c...

Wood is the most accessible and renewable material used by humankind during its history. Today, the consumption of wood exceeds all other known mat...

Ecologically, a woodland is a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade. Woodlands may support an understo...

Forest and woodland ecosystems in the world serve important ecological functions and also contribute to the economic, aesthetic and spiritual healt...

Cadmium (Cd) is currently one of the most important toxic metals in occupational and environmental toxicology. It causes adverse effects on kidneys...