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The Reference Shelf: Pollution

Table of Contents

Preface




1 Water Pollution




The Stuff of Life




Lethal Algae Blooms—An Ecosystem Out of Balance




Trump Administration Cuts Back Federal Protections for Streams and Wetlands




E.P.A. Is Letting Cities Dump More Raw Sewage into Rivers for Years to Come




Great Lakes Waters at Risk from Buried Contaminants and New Threats




The Missing 99%: Why Can’t We Find the Vast Majority of Ocean Plastic?




Plastic Bags Were Finally Being Banned: Then Came the Pandemic




2




Waiting to Inhale




What Causes Asthma? Clues from London’s Great Smog with Implications for Air Pollution Today




Air Pollution Could Make the COVID-19 Pandemic Worse for Some People




Black People Are Dying from the Coronavirus—Air Pollution Is One of the Main Culprits




Trump Dismantles Environmental Protections under Cover of Coronavirus




Fine Particle Air Pollution Is a Public Health Emergency Hiding in Plain Sight




3




Wasted Lands




60% of Superfund Sites Could Be Hit by Climate Change, New Government Report Finds




Plastic Recycling Is Broken: Why Does Big Plastic Want Cities to Get $1 Billion to Fix It?




Four Things You Didn’t Know about Nuclear Waste




On Nuclear Waste, Finland Shows U.S. How It Can Be Done




How a Nuclear Stalemate Left Radioactive Waste Stranded on a California Beach




4




Hidden Dimensions




Is Noise Pollution the Next Big Public-Health Crisis?




Noise Pollution Hurts Wildlife, but States Have Trouble Turning Down the Volume




Light Pollution Is a Big Problem, But You Can Help




The Vanishing Night: Light Pollution Threatens Ecosystems




Where Light Pollution Is Seeping into the Rural Night Sky




5




Finding Solutions




Helping the Environment, One Small Sensor at a Time




Ocean Cleanup Won’t Turn a Profit, But We Should Still Do It




China Could Wash Away Smog with Artificial Rain Storms from Skyscrapers




Pulling CO2 Out of the Air and Using It Could Be a Trillion-Dollar Business




This Bicycle Will Clean Polluted Air While You Pedal




What If Air Conditioners Could Help Save the Planet Instead of Destroying It?




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