Fresh water is one of the essential natural resources on Earth, and groundwater constitutes 98% of the liquid fresh water on the planet. Yet, throu...

This is an abridged and updated version of the award-winning publication 'Virginia's Endangered Species' (1991). An introduction summarises Virgini...

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was one of the worst man-made environmental disasters our country has ever experienced. The oil spill dramatically ...

In 1990 the Worldwatch Institute in Washington estimated that humankind had forty years to make the transition to an environmentally stable society...

The largest earthquake ever recorded in Haiti devastated parts of the country, including the capital, on January 12, 2010. The quake, centred about...

Nature conservation includes under its umbrella disciplines, such as landscape ecology, restoration ecology, theoretical ecology, ecological modell...

The rapid pace of industrialization and its resulting by-products have affected the environment by producing hazardous wastes, which have been rele...

Sustainable energy is the provision of energy such that it meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to...

Wastewater treatment represents a continuous challenge for engineers, environmental scientists and regulators. Today, an increasing number of new c...

Agroforestry is an approach to alternative land use based on deliberate integration of trees with crops and livestock production systems. It combin...

Environmental quality is a general term which can refer to varied characteristics that relate to the natural environment as well as the built envir...

In this handbook, the authors present current research in the study of the biological activity, classification and health and environmental implica...

Hazardous waste is a waste with properties that make it dangerous or potentially harmful to human health or the environment. Hazardous waste genera...

Hazardous waste is a waste with properties that make it dangerous or potentially harmful to human health or the environment. Hazardous waste genera...

The manufacturing and the application of organic dyes involve the production and the handling of many organic compounds hazardous to human health. ...

Book & CD. This is an insightful and timely compilation that will appeal to readers interested in environmental issues in the American West. Th...

Plants have a very specific and efficient mechanism to obtain, translocate and store nutrients from the surrounding environment. The precise mechan...

"In a world increasingly cynical and numb, Powning puts a light in the window for us all, wherever we call home." -- The Chicago Tribune

In her best-selling first book, Home: Tales of a Heritage Farm (2005), Anny Scoones introduced readers to historic Glamorgan Farm. In Home and Away...

Rejecting Francis Bacon's notion that the purpose of science is to control Nature, Stan Rowe presents a collection of essays advocating companionin...

The people of the Nechako region are not unfamiliar with hardship, environmental devastation and protecting what they hold dear. June Wood chronicl...

The Corps is responsible for dredging sediment from waterways to maintain shipping routes important for commerce. One dredge type, a hopper dredge,...

Many books have been written about how we might save life on Earth. Some people believe that saving the Earth will cost 125 billion dollars while o...

Humic acids (HA) make up an important component of soil humus related to the maintenance of soil water-holding capacity, stabilisation of soil stru...

Damage from hurricanes is expected to increase significantly in the coming decades because of the effects of climate change and coastal development...

Hurricane Sandy struck the United States in October 2012, causing an estimated $65 billion in damages. FEMA provides assistance to survivors throug...

Hurricane Sandy struck the East Coast with incredible power and fury, wreaking havoc in communities across the region. Entire neighbourhoods were f...

In 1954 Hurricane Hazel caused such destruction around Lake Ontario that it's a vivid memory half a century later. In 2003 Hurricane Juan so devast...

In 2017, four sequential disasters—hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria, and the California wildfires -- created an unprecedented demand for federal disa...

Chapter 1 provides a short overview of issues Congress may consider in its oversight of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA's) federal ...

Hydraulic fracturing is a technique used to recover oil and natural gas from underground low permeability rock formations. Hydraulic fracturing inv...

The cars which emit no greenhouse gases or creates no pollution... Cell phones and laptops working for a long time with a single cartridge without ...

In a world faced with massive and ever-growing energy demands where the environment is an important factor, an array of new technologies and or fue...

The general aim of this book is to explain the development of several types of models using an extremely small number of parameters in an attempt t...