In this outdoor activity, students explore the various types of pollution that exists in an urban environment. They discover the multiple signs and evidence of pollution in a local site, and consider ...

Pollution is a hugely complex mix of gaseous and particulate components that differ depending on the source. Vehicle exhaust and industrial manufacturing are major sources of particles of various ...

When the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was passed in the 1970s, eutrophication was the big problem. Eutrophication occurs when too many nutrients enter a body of water, increasing the amount of ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has developed guidelines for air pollution. They state the recommended limits of various pollutants that cities should stick to. Many sites across the UK record ...

Noise pollution is one of the types of pollution we don't often think ... For more short-term solutions, various cities have started implementing quiet hours or ticketing people for noise ...

Plastics are made up of different types of polymers — a substance made of long chains or networks of repeating ... the IAEA launched the Nuclear Technology for Controlling Plastic Pollution (NUTEC ...

"A lot of this pollution ends up back down on the surface." Dry deposition is the process by which various types of air pollution are spread by weather conditions and shifting winds without ...