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Nancy Odegaard, Alyce Sadongei, Kate Compton-Gore

In an age when pesticides and other toxins may be found on objects, art works, herbaria specimens, animal mounts, wall papers, and books, this collection is a welcome practical guide to identifying, testing for, and dealing with contamination on a range of items archived in museum collections.This book provides updated information for thoughtful testing, analysis, and safe handling of artifacts. Special features include revised worksheets for performing basic tests, updated charts o...

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David Sedlak

The history behind our growing water crisis: "A gem . . . An erudite romp through two millennia of water and sanitation practice and technology." — NatureTurn on the faucet, and water pours out. Pull out the drain plug, and the dirty water disappears. Most of us give little thought to the hidden systems that bring us water and take it away when we're done with it. But these underappreciated marvels of engineering face an array of challenges that cannot be s...

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Eugenia Bone

From Eugenia Bone, the critically acclaimed author of Mycophilia, comes an approachable, highly personal look at our complex relationship with the microbial world.While researching her book about mushrooms, Eugenia Bone became fascinated with microbes—those life forms that are too small to see without a microscope. Specifically, she wanted to understand the microbes that lived inside other organisms like plants and people. But as she began reading books, s...

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Leila Darwish

A practical guide to bioremediation: natural techniques that are proven to heal land damaged by pollution.In the United States and Canada alone, millions of acres have been contaminated by pesticides, chemicals, dirty energy projects, toxic waste, and other pollutants. Conventional clean-up techniques are expensive and resource-intensive and can cause further damage. Communities find themselves increasingly unable to rely on the same companies and governments that ...

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Lina Zeldovich

Grossly ambitious and rooted in scientific scholarship, The Other Dark Matter shows how human excrement can be a life-saving, money-making resource—if we make better use of it.The average person produces about four hundred pounds of excrement a year. More than seven billion people live on this planet. Holy crap!Because of the diseases it spreads, we have learned to distance ourselves from our waste, but the long line of engineering marvels we've crea...

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Maximus Basco

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Tilapia Farmers

Duckweed is a tiny aquatic plant covering stagnant water bodies; it’s seen in channels and waterways in semi-tropical and tropical climates in most countries. The green, three rounds fronds plant, or any of its four genera is known to many people who have seen it without realizing such aquatic plant is Duckweed or that such an abundant microphyte plant, considered an invasive plant, offers a great potential as animal feed, specially for fish.Its high level of protein content makes ...

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Imari Walker-Franklin, Jenna Jambeck

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The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series

A comprehensive introduction to the plastics life cycle—the impacts on our lives, our future, and our planet—and the actions we can take.Everywhere we look, we are surrounded by plastics: perhaps you have a book in one hand and your phone—made of various metals, plastics, and glass—in the other, or you are reading this on your polyurethane mattress after having flipped on a plastic light switch. In this Essential Knowledge series volume, Imari Walker-Franklin and J...

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François Reeves

We’ve all heard the risk factors for cardiovascular disease: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, smoking, stress, and a sedentary lifestyle. But what about our environment? Despite almost 500 recent studies that show the links between air and water quality, biodiversity, and heart health, a poor environment as a critical cardiovascular risk factor has largely been ignored. In Planet Heart, cardiologist François Reeves aims to redress this imbalance with an incisive and...

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Samuel Obura Afubwa

This book is one of its kind and is divided into two parts: (i) Environmental Health (ii) Occupational Health and Safety. Environmental Health has been written to cover the pillars of Environmental Health with categories in history, solid waste management, sanitation, pollution, toxicology, ventilation & lighting. Environmental Health Impact Assessment with emphasis on EIA Food Quality Control that has an international dimension, disaster management and laws coveri...

This work provides those involved in water purification research and administration with a comprehensive resource of methods for analyzing water to assure its safety from contaminants, both natural and human caused. The book first provides an overview of major water-related issues in developing and developed countries, followed by a review of issues of sampling for water analysis, regulatory considerations and forensics in water quality and purity investigations. The subsequent chapters co...

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Prof Dickson Despommier, Dr Elisa Appolloni, Dr Francesco Orsini, Dr Giorgio Gianquinto, Emeritus Professor Toyoki Kozai, Dr Yumiko Amagai, Dr Eri Hayashi, Dr James E. Faust, Dr Damianos Neocleous, Dr Giuseppina Pennisi, Dr Alessandro Pistillo, Professor Dimitrios Savvas

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Burleigh Dodds Science: Instant Insights

This specially curated collection features five reviews of current and key research on vertical farming in horticulture.The first chapter describes and evaluates technologies and methods for growing edible plants indoors and presents a survey of selected commercial vertical farms currently operating that employ them.The second chapter explores the benefits of plant factories with artificial lighting (PFALs). The chapter assesses resource consumption, costs ...

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Lewis H. Ziska

The carbon dioxide that industrial civilization spews into the atmosphere has dramatic consequences for life on Earth that extend beyond climate change. CO2 levels directly affect plant growth, in turn affecting any kind of life that depends on plants—in other words, everything.Greenhouse Planet reveals the stakes of increased CO2 for plants, people, and ecosystems—from crop yields to seasonal allergies and from wildfires to biodiversity. The veteran plant biologist Lewis ...