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    A pollutant or novel entity is a substance or energy introduced into the environment that has undesired effects, or adversely affects the usefulness of...
    11 KB (1,213 words) - 09:20, 23 February 2024
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    Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are organic compounds that are resistant to degradation through chemical, biological, and photolytic processes. They...
    38 KB (5,158 words) - 09:33, 9 April 2024
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    Noise pollution, or sound pollution, is the propagation of noise or sound with ranging impacts on the activity of human or animal life, most of which are...
    100 KB (11,202 words) - 11:51, 16 April 2024
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    substances such as oil, metals, plastics, pesticides, persistent organic pollutants, and industrial waste products. Another is stressful conditions such as...
    57 KB (8,336 words) - 16:11, 15 May 2024
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    Air pollution (redirect from Air pollutant)
    is the contamination of air due to the presence of substances called pollutants in the atmosphere that are harmful to the health of humans and other living...
    229 KB (23,275 words) - 07:30, 28 May 2024
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    regarding environmental noise, and reduce environmental noise. Additionally, in the European Union, underwater noise is a pollutant according to the Marine...
    28 KB (2,896 words) - 05:48, 24 May 2024
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    liquid, or gas) or energy (such as radioactivity, heat, sound, or light). Pollutants, the components of pollution, can be either foreign substances/energies...
    73 KB (8,611 words) - 12:46, 26 April 2024
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    certified to meet certain noise criteria. There are a variety of secondary effects stemming not from the original pollutant, but a derivative condition...
    79 KB (11,015 words) - 08:05, 23 May 2024
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    destruction of coral reefs and coastal habitats, underwater construction noise, pollutant runoff, artificial lighting, and plumes of silt and sediment. The development...
    18 KB (2,134 words) - 12:15, 19 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Legacy pollution
    Legacy pollution or legacy pollutants are persistent materials in the environment that were created through a polluting industry or process that have polluting...
    38 KB (5,154 words) - 15:02, 1 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Air quality index
    Air Pollution Index, and Singapore's Pollutant Standards Index. Computation of the AQI requires an air pollutant concentration over a specified averaging...
    65 KB (5,229 words) - 14:34, 28 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
    Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants is an international environmental treaty, signed on 22 May 2001 in Stockholm and effective from 17...
    33 KB (2,128 words) - 02:20, 23 May 2024
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    Noise control or noise mitigation is a set of strategies to reduce noise pollution or to reduce the impact of that noise, whether outdoors or indoors....
    32 KB (3,820 words) - 18:50, 1 May 2024
  • The National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) are air pollution standards issued by the United States Environmental Protection...
    15 KB (772 words) - 17:57, 19 May 2024
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    introduced. Since then, for the first time in Indian history, major air pollutant concentrations have dropped in every 5-year period. Between 1992 and 2010...
    43 KB (4,812 words) - 00:43, 23 April 2024
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    dispersion; this mixes ambient air with the pollutants downwind behind the barrier. Health effects from noise Noise control Safety barrier Soundproofing Wagner...
    12 KB (1,432 words) - 12:37, 27 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Atmospheric dispersion modeling
    that govern the pollutant dispersion. The dispersion models are used to estimate the downwind ambient concentration of air pollutants or toxins emitted...
    33 KB (3,636 words) - 07:54, 27 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for National Ambient Air Quality Standards
    pronounced /ˈnæks/ naks) are limits on atmospheric concentration of six pollutants that cause smog, acid rain, and other health hazards. Established by the...
    24 KB (2,534 words) - 22:49, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bioremediation
    phytoremediation), living or dead, is employed for removing environmental pollutants from air, water, soil, flue gasses, industrial effluents etc., in natural...
    46 KB (5,150 words) - 11:19, 23 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of surface water sports
    common in the class. Dinghy racing Environmental impact includes noise, pollutants, shoreline degradation, and disturbance and dislocation of wildlife...
    10 KB (1,337 words) - 04:49, 27 March 2024
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