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1Environmental Problems, TheirCause
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AirSOLAR ENERGYRESOURCESWaterEnergy
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take the resources of 1.15 planet e
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Causes of Environmental Problems•
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Developing Countriesxx=Population (
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■ We should encourage earth-susta
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A continent ages quickly once we co
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Good NewsMore foodSupported alarger
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Figure 2-8 Theodore (“Teddy”)Ro
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What Happened during the 1970s? The
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on which they and their ancestors h
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Science is an adventure of the huma
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CTIONSWhat Is Harmingthe Robins?Sup
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After building and testing a mathem
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I am going to give you a brief intr
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Figure 3-6 The pH scale, used to me
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The different molecules of DNA that
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Energy emitted from sun (kcal/cm 2
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number of resource users. In other
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The earth’s thin film of living m
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AtmosphereVegetationBiosphereand an
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Coastal chaparraland scrubConiferou
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NoorganismsLower limitof toleranceF
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Detritus feedersDecomposersLong-hor
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First TrophicLevelSecond TrophicLev
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Figure 4-20 Generalized pyramid of
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Terrestrial EcosystemsSwamps and ma
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every handful of topsoil break down
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suited for plant growth. It has a t
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Figure 4-29 Naturalcapital: simplif
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wildlife habitats, alter temperatur
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miningFertilizerexcretionuptake bya
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How Are Human Activities Affecting
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For example, people visit degraded
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There is grandeur to this view of l
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According to the theory of evolutio
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Black skimmerseizes small fishat wa
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5-4 SPECIATION, EXTINCTION,AND BIOD
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Scientists have also identified per
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Identify and extractgene with desir
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infrared radiation, as a rattlesnak
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To do science is to search for repe
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figure. Scientists hypothesize that
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ArcticCircleTropic ofCancerNorth Pa
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Figure 11-15 Surface fires (left) u
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AdvantagesHelps meetcountry’s tim
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Kenya’s Green Belt MovementINDIVI
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Ecologists and conservation biologi
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Monitorand assessattainmentDevelopo
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for designation as wilderness—abo
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■ Make conservation profitable. T
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12 TheSustaining Biodiversity:Speci
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Grizzly bear(threatened)Kirkland’
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CharacteristicLow reproductive rate
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spend over three times as many hour
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According to biodiversity researche
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Nonnative species are the second gr
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Figure 12-10 Kudzu taking over a ho
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Characteristics ofSuccessfulInvader
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legs. This has also nearly wiped ou
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Top Six Hot Spots1 Hawaii2 San Fran
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to take away private property right
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North American-SouthAmerican flyway
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places where people live, work, or
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destruction, degradation, and fragm
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The coastal zone may be the single
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BluegillWhite bassBrook troutWhite
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To sum it up: Many species are over
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Bowhead whaleBowhead whaleBowhead w
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Case Study: Near Extinction of the
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Before commercial whaling began an
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have suggested for managing global
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Restoring a WetlandINDIVIDUALSMATTE
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een invaded by at least 162 nonnati
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carcasses on the forest floor. As t
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2. Why is marine biodiversity highe
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There are two spiritual dangers in
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EcologicalServicesCroplands• Help
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1910. People in developing countrie
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Areas of serious concernAreas of so
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ModerateSevereVery severeFigure 14-
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water then envelops the deep roots
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AdvantagesT rade-OffsInorganic Comm
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Calories per day per person3,7003,5
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Biodiversity LossLoss and degradati
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T rade-OffsGenetically Modified Cro
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Much of the world’s potentially c
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shrubs such as mesquite and prickly
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FishShellfishDemersal(mostly bottom
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new region, hoping that the overfis
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low. This makes consumers happy but
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2. If possible, visit both a conven
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Our liquid planet glows like a soft
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What Is Groundwater? Water DownBelo
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1 automobile1 kilogramcotton1 kilog
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1960. The area of West Africa’s L
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major rivers are going dry part of
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have been cheaper, less disruptive,
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has reduced populations of resident
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Figure 15-16 Natural capital degrad
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Desalination involves removing diss
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Figure 15-20 Major irrigation syste
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Running Short of Waterin Las Vegas,
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Oxygenreleased byvegetationDiversee
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equires about twice as much water p
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Civilization exists by geological c
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Collision between twoTectonic plate
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AsthenosphereOceanic ridge at a div
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Figure 16-8 A volcano erupts when m
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What Are Nonrenewable MineralResour
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We do know that the demand for mine
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First, carefully investigate its po
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17 NonrenewableEnergy ResourcesEner
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Nuclear power6%Hydropower, geotherm
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■ How will extracting, transporti
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FurnaceHeatedcrude oilGasesGasoline
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Oil price per barrel ($)70605040302
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AdvantagesTrade-OffsDrilling for Oi
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AdvantagesModerate cost(oil sand)La
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17-4 COALWhat Is Coal, and How Is I
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Without huge government subsidies,
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Fuel assembliesDecommissioningof re
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eactor core did not melt down and n
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prevent a fire, but these could mal
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In 2004, physicist Paul Craig resig
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Detonating a dirty bomb at street l
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Civilization as we know it will not
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If the United States wants to save
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technologies or greatly improve the
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The Real Cost of Gasoline in the Un
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Fuel-cell stackConverts hydrogenfue
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compacted bales of low-cost straw a
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of cogeneration units or microturbi
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Direct GainCeiling and north wallhe
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and availability of cheaper ways to
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AdvantagesModerate to highnet energ
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Biomass consists of plant materials
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Some analysts believe that liquid m
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AdvantagesCan be producedfrom plent
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Producing Hydrogen from Green Algae
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Small modular unitsFast factory pro
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What Can You Do?Energy Use and Wast
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The dose makes the poison.PARACELSU
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PCBs (oily chemicals used in electr
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Table 9-1 Toxicity Ratings and Aver
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standards. But citizens, lawmakers,
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chemicals, a little about many, and
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Dengue FeverPainful and sometimes f
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Deaths per100,000 people
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SolutionsIncrease research on tropi
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hospitals stock large supplies of a
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HazardPovertyBorn maleSmokingOverwe
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For example, the top four killers o
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Table 20-1 Major Classes of Air Pol
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Table 20-2 Major Outdoor Air Pollut
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SolarradiationUltraviolet radiation
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20-4 REGIONAL OUTDOORAIR POLLUTION
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Potential problem areasbecause of s
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acid-loving mosses that can kill tr
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cancer from HAPs—mostly formaldeh
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PreventionSolutionsStationary Sourc
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What Can You Do?Indoor Air Pollutio
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We are embarked on the most colossa
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21-2 THE EARTH’S NATURALGREENHOUS
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the troposphere. Electricity genera
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City 10-15%Grass 15-25%Bare sand 30
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SunTroposphereAerosolsGreenhousegas
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These possibilities were affirmed b
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global warming during the past 50 y
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could reach 6 million (Figure 1-15,
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■ developed countries, developing
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Figure 21-18 Solutions:methods for
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Winning nations are less likely to
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What Can You Do?Reducing Exposure t
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9. Congratulations! You are in char
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Today everybody is downwind or down
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WaterQualityGoodSlightlypollutedMod
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Types oforganismsDissolvedoxygen(pp
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Figure 22-6 Biological magnificatio
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Bad news. Now the Puget Sound is in
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Figure 22-9 Natural capital degrada
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22-5 OCEAN POLLUTIONHow Much Pollut
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Oil slicks that wash onto beaches c
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are used for drinking water, bathin
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OdorsOdors may cause illness orindi
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Also, between 1972 and 2002, the pe
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must rely on bottled water because
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23 PestManagementPest &DiseaseContr
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(dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane),
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Figure 23-2 Geographic range of fiv
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Studies have linked exposure to som
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approximately 165 of the active ing
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vegetables even though there is not
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Agricultural Research Service/USDAF
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24 Solidand Hazardous WasteCASE STU
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part of the overall solid waste pro
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every part reusable or recyclable f
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Ray AndersonINDIVIDUALSMATTERRay An
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What Can You Do?Other examples of r
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Outside usesEnergy recovery(steam a
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These new landfills are equipped wi
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Indian officials claim that Union C
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contaminated soil than conventional
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Figure 24-23 Solutions: securehazar
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AIRWINDSPRECIPITATIONWINDSPRECIPITA
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How Dangerous Are Dioxins? Controve
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Since the Superfund program began,
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6. Would you oppose having a hazard
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The city is not an ecological monst
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SeattleLosAngelesPortlandBoiseSan F
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Noise Levels (in dbA)Permanent dama
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How Can Reducing CrimeHelp the Envi
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group is the politically powerful t
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In the United States, 80% of federa
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Limits and RegulationsLimit buildin
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ecognizing that our bodies are biol
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When it is asked how much it will c
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The value of discount rates are con
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harmful competing alternatives, suc
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There are problems with the regulat
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Germany:Blue Angel (1978)Canada:Env
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Developed countries can help develo
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Figure 26-16 Solutions: principles
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Politics is the art of making good
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■ The prevention principle: Whene
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unfavorable to the administration
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Figure 27-5 How a bill introducedin
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Figure 27-7 Generalposition of seve
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Despite many obstacles, proponents
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How Can We Improve Environmental La
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Trade-OffsGlobal Efforts on Environ
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educing global trade barriers will
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In 2002, Finland, Norway, Sweden, C
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28 Ethics,Environmental Worldviews,
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More holisticMore atomisticBiospher
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capital and focuses on short-term e
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time to escape the cultural and tec
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What Are the Major Components of th
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A PPENDIX 2MAJOR EVENTS IN U.S. ENV
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1965-69Severe pollution of Lake Eri
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A PPENDIX 3SOME BASIC CHEMISTRYHow
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Figure 4 Hydrogen bonds. Slightly u
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A PPENDIX 5BRIEF HISTORY OF THE AGE
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artificial selection Process by whi
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conservation biology Multidisciplin
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ecosystem Community of differentspe
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natural lawSee scientific law.natur
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plankton Small plant organisms (phy
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salinization Accumulation of salts
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sustainable agriculture Method of g