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1. Pollution: Pollution : Contamination of the natural environment, which usually affects the growth or behaviour of animals and plants, causes health hazards, or leads to other negative consequences. [100%] 2023-11-12
2. Pollution: Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change. Pollution can take the form of any substance (solid, liquid, or gas) or energy (such as radioactivity, heat, sound, or light). (Introduction of contaminants that cause adverse change) [100%] 2023-11-11 [Pollution] [Environmental toxicology]...
3. Pollution: Pollution is the introduction of anything that causes disorder to an ecosystem. There are several different kinds of pollution, detailed below. [100%] 2024-01-02 [Environmentalism] [Human carcinogens]...
4. Pollution: Pollution is contamination of a system with harmful foreign components. The most common usage of the word pollution refers to environmental pollution, which is contamination of the air, ground, or water by harmful chemicals or particulate matter. [100%] 2023-02-14
5. Pollution: POLLUTION po-lu'-shun (ga'al, "to pollute"; alisgema, "contamination"): In Malachi 1:7, "Ye offer polluted bread," i.e. not actually unclean, but worthless, common (compare Ezra 2:62), bread here being used metonymically for sacrificial offerings generally (compare ... [100%] 1915-01-01
6. Pollution: Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change. Pollution can take the form of any substance (solid, liquid, or gas) or energy (such as radioactivity, heat, sound, or light). (Introduction of contaminants that cause adverse change) [100%] 2024-06-08 [Pollution] [Environmental toxicology]...
7. Pollution remediation: Part of the Wikiversity Department of Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering and the Engineering and Technology Portal Remediation of pollution, or clean-up, may require the capture or containment of contaminants. Additional helpful readings include: Please sign up!!. [70%] 2023-04-05 [Chemistry] [Engineering]...
8. Pollution électromagnétique: Cet article concernant les télécommunications doit être recyclé (mars 2008). Une réorganisation et une clarification du contenu paraissent nécessaires. [70%] 2023-09-17
9. Pollution (album): Pollution is the second studio album by the Italian progressive rock musician Franco Battiato. It was released in 1973 on the experimental label Bla Bla (catalogue no. (Album) [70%] 2024-01-06 [1972 albums] [Franco Battiato albums]...
10. Pollution Pricing: Pollution pricing reform (PPR) is the process of adjusting market prices to include direct environmental impact on measurable parameters, as e.g. dust and gas exhaust from combustion engines especially in road traffic. (Finance) [70%] 2023-08-14 [Pricing]
11. Light Pollution: Light pollution is a man-made phenomenon whereby a detailed view of the night sky is obscured by excessive or poorly-designed artificial lighting, especially in or around cities and towns. This is a significant concern for amateur and professional ... [70%] 2023-02-24 [Astronomy]
12. Corporate Pollution: Corporate Pollution is the third album by Irish grunge band Paradox, released on March 15, 2011. [70%] 2023-11-24 [2011 albums] [Paradox (Irish band) albums]...
13. Pollution insurance: Pollution insurance is a type of insurance that covers costs related to pollution. This can include the costs of brownfield restoration and cleanup, liability for injuries and deaths caused by pollution. [70%] 2024-03-30 [Pollution] [Types of insurance]...
14. Pollution haven hypothesis: The pollution haven hypothesis posits that, when large industrialized nations seek to set up factories or offices abroad, they will often look for the cheapest option in terms of resources and labor that offers the land and material access they ... (Finance) [57%] 2023-05-19 [Economic globalization]
15. Monitoring of Pollution: Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) is a space-based spectrometer designed to measure air pollution across greater North America at a high resolution and on an hourly basis. The ultraviolet–visible spectrometer will provide hourly data on ozone, nitrogen ... [57%] 2023-11-16 [Satellite meteorology] [Spacecraft instruments]...
16. Pollution haven hypothesis: The pollution haven hypothesis posits that, when large industrialized nations seek to set up factories or offices abroad, they will often look for the cheapest option in terms of resources and labor that offers the land and material access they ... (Conjecture that businesses look for the cheapest option when locating factories abroad) [57%] 2023-07-17 [Environmental economics] [Economic globalization]...
17. Pollution of the Ganges: The ongoing pollution of the Ganges, the largest river in the Indian subcontinent, poses a significant threat to human health and the environment. The river, which is severely polluted with human waste and industrial contaminants, provides water to about 40 ... (Ongoing environmental disaster in India) [50%] 2024-01-08 [Water pollution in India] [Pollution in India]...
18. Pollution of Lake Karachay: Lake Karachay, located in the southern Ural Mountains in eastern Russia, was a dumping ground for the Soviet Union's nuclear weapon facilities. It was also affected by a string of accidents and disasters causing the surrounding areas to be ... (Radioactive contamination of Lake Karachay) [50%] 2023-03-02 [Lakes of Chelyabinsk Oblast] [Radioactively contaminated areas]...
19. Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme: The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (or CPRS) was a cap-and-trade emissions trading scheme for anthropogenic greenhouse gases proposed by the Rudd government, as part of its climate change policy, which had been due to commence in Australia in ... (Earth) [50%] 2023-10-28 [Climate change policy]
20. Operational Street Pollution Model: The Operational Street Pollution Model (OSPM) is an atmospheric dispersion model for simulating the dispersion of air pollutants in so-called street canyons. It was developed by the National Environmental Research Institute of Denmark, Department of Atmospheric Environment, Aarhus University. (Earth) [50%] 2023-12-24 [Atmospheric dispersion modeling]
21. Pollution Control and Monitoring: Have you read the course overview on Web Victory yet ? Dear PCM students, Your online system is now up and running, this has been developed so that you can talk to each other about your assignment question. [50%] 2023-12-29 [Pollution]
22. National Air Pollution Symposium: The National Air Pollution Symposium was held on November 10–11, 1949 in Pasadena, California by the Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International), along with assistance from the California Institute of Technology, the University of Southern California and the University ... (Earth) [50%] 2023-07-22 [Air pollution]
23. National Air Pollution Monitoring Network: The National Air Pollution Monitoring Network (NABEL) is a joint project of the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (BAFU) and the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA), based in Dübendorf, in the canton of Zurich. As ... (Earth) [44%] 2023-09-25 [Air pollution]
24. Pollution of the Hudson River: Between 1947 and 1977, General Electric polluted the Hudson River by discharging polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) causing a range of harmful effects to wildlife and people who eat fish from the river. Other kinds of pollution, including mercury contamination and cities ... (Ongoing environmental disaster in the United States of America) [44%] 2023-12-16 [Corporate scandals] [Environmental issues in New York (state)]...
25. Southeast Water Pollution Control Plant: The Southeast Water Pollution Control Plant, also called the Southeast Treatment Plant, is a wastewater treatment plant operated by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, in San Francisco, California, United States. It is located in the southeastern portion of the ... [44%] 2023-12-31 [Sewage treatment plants in California] [Government buildings in San Francisco]...
26. Oil Pollution Act of 1961: Oil Pollution Act of 1961, 33 U.S.C. Chapter 20 §§ 1001-1011, established judicial definitions and coastal prohibitions for the United States maritime industry. (Earth) [44%] 2023-01-20 [Ocean pollution]
27. Geospatial Measurements of Air Pollution: Geospatial Measurement of Air Pollution (GMAP) is the use of mobile measurement systems to gain insight into air pollution emissions, population impacts, and exposure risk management approaches. (Earth) [44%] 2024-02-13 [Air pollution]
28. Oil Pollution Act of 1973: The Oil Pollution Act of 1973 or Oil Pollution Act Amendments of 1973, 33 U.S.C. Chapter 20 §§ 1001-1011, was a United States federal law which amended the United States Statute 75 Stat. (Earth) [44%] 2023-03-29 [Ocean pollution]
29. Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Act: The Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Act (1970, R.S.C. 1985) (the Act) is a Government of Canada statute to prevent pollution of areas of the arctic waters adjacent to the mainland and islands of the Canadian arctic. [44%] 2023-11-07 [1965 in the environment] [Environmental law in Canada]...
30. Pollution in the Arctic Ocean: Pollution in the Arctic Ocean is primarily the result of economic activities carried out on land, which is sources from locally, regionally, and globally origins. There is also the inclusion of industrial development in the Arctic region, northern rivers, and ... (Earth) [44%] 2023-11-04 [Arctic Ocean] [Arctic research]...
31. Thermal pollution: Thermal pollution, sometimes called "thermal enrichment", is the degradation of water quality by any process that changes ambient water temperature. Thermal pollution is the rise or fall in the temperature of a natural body of water caused by human influence. (Earth) [70%] 2022-09-10 [Aquatic ecology] [Water pollution]...
32. Air pollution: Air pollution is the contamination of air due to the presence of substances in the atmosphere that are harmful to the health of humans and other living beings, or cause damage to the climate or to materials. There are many ... (Presence of dangerous substances in the atmosphere) [70%] 2024-01-13 [Air pollution] [Articles containing video clips]...
33. Noise pollution: Template:Pollution Noise pollution (or environmental noise in technical venues) is displeasing human or machine created sound that disrupts the environment. The dominant form of noise pollution is from transportation sources, principally motor vehicles. [70%] 2023-11-18 [Noise pollution] [Audiology]...
34. Air pollution: Air pollution is caused by contaminants such as smoke and car exhaust. In cities, a hazy combination of gases and soot causes "smog". [70%] 2023-02-17 [Earth Sciences]
35. Agricultural pollution: Agricultural pollution refers to biotic and abiotic byproducts of farming practices that result in contamination or degradation of the environment and surrounding ecosystems, and/or cause injury to humans and their economic interests. The pollution may come from a variety ... (Earth) [70%] 2023-10-21 [Air pollution] [Water pollution]...
36. Water pollution: Water pollution (or aquatic pollution) is the contamination of water bodies, usually as a result of human activities, so that it negatively affects its uses. Water bodies include lakes, rivers, oceans, aquifers, reservoirs and groundwater. (Contamination of water bodies) [70%] 2024-01-26 [Water pollution] [Aquatic ecology]...
37. Nutrient pollution: Nutrient pollution, a form of water pollution, refers to contamination by excessive inputs of nutrients. It is a primary cause of eutrophication of surface waters (lakes, rivers and coastal waters), in which excess nutrients, usually nitrogen or phosphorus, stimulate algal ... (Earth) [70%] 2023-12-29 [Agricultural soil science] [Environmental soil science]...
38. Marine pollution: Marine pollution occurs when substances used or spread by humans, such as industrial, agricultural and residential waste, particles, noise, excess carbon dioxide or invasive organisms enter the ocean and cause harmful effects there. The majority of this waste (80%) comes ... (Earth) [70%] 2023-11-11 [Ocean pollution] [Oceanographical terminology]...
39. Air pollution: Air pollution is the contamination of air due to the presence of substances in the atmosphere that are harmful to the health of humans and other living beings, or cause damage to the climate or to materials. There are many ... (Earth) [70%] 2022-09-27 [Air pollution]
40. Cache pollution: Cache pollution describes situations where an executing computer program loads data into CPU cache unnecessarily, thus causing other useful data to be evicted from the cache into lower levels of the memory hierarchy, degrading performance. For example, in a multi ... [70%] 2022-10-18 [Computer architecture] [Cache (computing)]...
41. Drug pollution: Drug pollution or pharmaceutical pollution is pollution of the environment with pharmaceutical drugs and their metabolites, which reach the aquatic environment (groundwater, rivers, lakes, and oceans) through wastewater. Drug pollution is therefore mainly a form of water pollution. (Chemistry) [70%] 2023-11-19 [Chemical safety]
42. Land pollution: Land pollution is the degradation of earth's land surfaces often caused by human activities and its misuse. Haphazard disposal of urban and industrial wastes, exploitation of minerals, and improper use of soil by inadequate agricultural practices are a few ... [70%] 2023-02-04
43. Air pollution: Air pollution is the contamination of air due to the presence of substances in the atmosphere that are harmful to the health of humans and other living beings, or cause damage to the climate or to materials. There are many ... (Presence of dangerous substances in the atmosphere) [70%] 2022-10-01 [Air pollution] [Articles containing video clips]...
44. Water pollution: Water pollution (or aquatic pollution) is the contamination of water bodies, usually as a result of human activities, so that it negatively affects its uses. Water bodies include lakes, rivers, oceans, aquifers, reservoirs and groundwater. (Contamination of water bodies) [70%] 2023-11-07 [Water pollution] [Aquatic ecology]...
45. Plastic pollution: Plastic pollution is the accumulation of plastic objects and particles (e.g. plastic bottles, bags and microbeads) in the Earth's environment that adversely affects humans, wildlife and their habitat. (Accumulation of plastic in natural ecosystems) [70%] 2024-01-12 [Anthropocene] [Pollution]...
46. Groundwater pollution: Groundwater pollution (also called groundwater contamination) occurs when pollutants are released to the ground and make their way into groundwater. This type of water pollution can also occur naturally due to the presence of a minor and unwanted constituent, contaminant ... (Earth) [70%] 2023-09-13 [Hydrology] [Hydraulic engineering]...
47. Air pollution: Air pollution is the "presence of contaminants or pollutant substances in the air (air pollutants) that interfere with human health or welfare, or produce other harmful environmental effects. The substances may include gases; particulate matter; or volatile organic chemicals". [70%] 2023-06-12
48. Water pollution: Water pollution (or aquatic pollution) is the contamination of water bodies, usually as a result of human activities, so that it negatively affects its uses. Water bodies include lakes, rivers, oceans, aquifers, reservoirs and groundwater. (Earth) [70%] 2024-01-12 [Water pollution] [Aquatic ecology]...
49. Particulate pollution: Particulate pollution is pollution of an environment that consists of particles suspended in some medium. There are three primary forms: atmospheric particulate matter, marine debris, and space debris. (Pollution ) [70%] 2023-11-24 [Pollution] [Atmospheric sciences]...
50. Heap pollution: In the Java programming language, heap pollution is a situation that arises when a variable of a parameterized type refers to an object that is not of that parameterized type. This situation is normally detected during compilation and indicated with ... [70%] 2023-12-19 [Java platform]
51. Talk pollution: Talk pollution is non-substantive, meaningless talk which has an effect of distracting others from the substantive issues. It is often intended to obscure or deflect those issues. [70%] 2023-06-23 [Conservapedia Terms]