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Books on: acid precipitation

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1.

International Law and Pollution

Book by Daniel Barstow Magraw; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991

Subjects:

Acid Rain--Law And Legislation--Congresses, Environmental Law, International--Congresses, Pollution--Law And Legislation--Congresses

Collections: Entire Library

...small-scale modeling of temperature, precipitation, and wind patterns. 102 Many environmental...the case in the Canada-United States acid rain dispute. Paradoxically, however...warranted, as in the Canada-United States acid rain controversy. 106 Such a group...
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Global Environmental Issues: A Climatological Approach

Book by David D.Kemp; Routledge, 1994

Collections: Entire Library

...4 ACID RAIN 70...Variability of precipitation at selected stations...temperature and precipitation for Topeka, Kansas...the pH level of acid rain in comparison...past. Drought, acid precipitation and the greenhouse...
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The Environment Dictionary

Book by David D. Kemp; Routledge, 1998

Subjects:

Environmental Sciences--Dictionaries, Pollution--Dictionaries

Collections: Entire Library

The Environment Dictionary provides an essential source of information on all aspects of the environment. It includes all the basic scientific terms and concepts along with socio-economic, cultural, historical and political elements which impact on the environment and provides the interdisciplinary ...
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The Environment Dictionary provides an essential source of information on all aspects of the environment. It includes all the basic scientific terms and concepts along with socio-economic, cultural, historical and political elements which impact on the environment and provides the interdisciplinary approach required to understand environmental issues worldwide. Designed for a wide range of readers, the dictionary is up-to-date, easy to read and to reference. Selected environmental issues which have particular importance are treated in greater depth through a series of boxed case studies. A wide range of maps and figures illustrate the texts and extensive cross-referencing between entries ensures readers can build on their knowledge.
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Global Environmental Change: Interactions of Science, Policy, and Politics in the United States

Book by Robert G. Fleagle; Praeger Publishers, 1994

Subjects:

Environmental Policy--United States, Global Environmental Change

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This study examines how threats to the environment--the facts and probable impacts of global environment change--deserve local, national, and international attention.
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Applied Geography: Principles and Practice: An Introduction to Useful Research in Physical, Environmental and Human Geography

Book by Michael Pacione; Routledge, 1999

Subjects:

Environmental Management, Geography, Natural Disasters, Nature--Effect Of Human Beings On, Spatial Analysis (Statistics)

Collections: Entire Library

Applied Geography offers an invaluable introduction to useful research in physical, environmental and human geography and provides a new focus and reference point for investigating and understanding problem-orientated research.

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Journal Articles on: acid precipitation

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Regional Influences and Environmental Policymaking: A Study of Acid Rain

Journal article by Leslie R. Alm; Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 21, 1993

Subjects:

Acid rain--Environmental aspects, Environmental policy--Analysis, Environmental protection--Management, Regionalism--Environmental aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...Research Service, and the National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program all delineated...rain policy options (National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program Interim...States to concentrations of acid precipitation in the Rocky Mountains (Oppenheimer...
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Acid Rain and Transboundary Air Quality in Canadian-American Relations

Journal article by Don Munton; American Review of Canadian Studies, Vol. 27, 1997

Subjects:

Acid rain, Canadian foreign relations--United States, Environmental protection, International cooperation

Collections: Entire Library

...Advisor, the decade-long National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program (NAPAP...21-28; and E.B. Cowling, "Acid Precipitation in Historical Perspective...Acidification of Lakes in Canada by Acid Precipitation and the Resulting Effects on...
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Acid Drainage from Mines

Journal article by Gordon A. Robb, James D.F. Robinson; The Geographical Journal, Vol. 161, 1995

Subjects:

Acid mine drainage--Environmental aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...The nature of acid mine drainage has...involved aeration, precipitation of oxyhydroxides...treatment as the acid pH often ensures...will increase the precipitation kinetics of the...ferric hydroxide precipitation causing the build...often observed at acid mine drainage sites...
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Valproic Acid Teratogenicity: A Toxicogenomics Approach

Journal article by Kim Kultima, Anna-Maja Nystrom, Birger Scholz, Anne-Lee Gustafson, Lennart Dencker, Michael Stigson; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 112, 2004

Subjects:

Anticonvulsants

Collections: Entire Library

...fluorescent nucleotides were removed by ethanol precipitation. Microarray Hybridization Spotted cDNA...investigation. FIGURE 1 OMITTED Valproic Acid-Associated Gene Expression Changes in...Tables 1 and 2). FIGURE 2 OMITTED Valproic Acid--Associated Gene Expression Changes in...
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Analyses of Fish Species Richness with Spatial Covariate

Journal article by James P. Hobert, N.S. Altman, Carl L. Schofield; Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 92, 1997

Subjects:

Acid deposition--Environmental aspects, Fishes--Environmental aspects, Water pollution--Models

Collections: Entire Library

...the United States (National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program NAPAP 1990...resulting from the National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program, henceforth...Ray Brook, NY. National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program (NAPAP...

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Magazine Articles on: acid precipitation

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Global Warming Research: Learning from Past Mistakes

Magazine article by Edward S. Rubin; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 122, September 1993

Subjects:

Acid rain--Research, Global warming--Prevention, National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program--Evaluation

Collections: Entire Library

...controlling it. For a full decade, the National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program (NAPAP) labored at this task...surrounding the acid rain debate, Congress passed the Acid Precipitation Act of 1980, creating a 10-year research program...
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Oh, Say, Can You See? Haze Dims America's Vistas

Magazine article by Tony Fitzpatrick; The Futurist, Vol. 25, March 1991

Subjects:

Acid rain--Environmental aspects, Air pollution--Environmental aspects, Air quality--Environmental aspects, Electric power production--Environmental aspects, Halocarbons--Environmental aspects, Haze--Environmental aspects, National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program--Reports

Collections: Entire Library

...contribution to a report prepared for the National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program, a massive federal study of...1124, St. Louis, Missouri 63130) or the National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program (722 Jackson Place, N.W., Washington...
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New Concern about Acid Rain: Trees' Immune Systems May Be Damaged by Pollution

Magazine article by Hope Cristol; The Futurist, Vol. 36, November 2002

Collections: Entire Library

...form acidic compounds. The resulting mild solution of sulfuric acid and nitric acid becomes acid rain when it falls to the ground with precipitation--rain, fog, and snow. While scientists have long known that acid rain weakens trees by damaging...
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The True Cost of Coal

Magazine article by Robert Cullen; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 272, December 1993

Subjects:

Acid rain--Economic aspects, Coal industry--Environmental aspects, Coal industry--Prices and rates, Coal--Prices and rates, Greenhouse effect--Economic aspects, Mine accidents--Economic aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...it would be difficult to assess damages. The National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program, in an exhaustive survey completed...for which the blame could conclusively be placed on acid rain. Some lakes and streams at higher elevations in...
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Microbes in the Pits

Magazine article by Jo Davison; World and I, Vol. 19, February 2004

Subjects:

Acid mine drainage--Contamination, Microorganisms--Usage, Water treatment--Innovations, Water treatment--Methods, Water treatment--Research, Water--Innovations, Water--Methods, Water--Purification, Water--Research

Collections: Entire Library

...billions of gallons of freshwater, from both aquifers and precipitation. In such unnatural conditions, high water pressures arise...carrying high levels of water- soluble metals and sulfur. This is acid mine drainage. Left behind Most of the active coal and...

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Newspaper Articles on: acid precipitation

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Rust Occurs Less, Still Problem

Newspaper article by John D. Peige; The Washington Times, November 12, 1999

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...effects on wood (which is more acid sensitive than paint on metal objects, such as cars) conducted by the National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program (NAPAP), the causal relationship between acid rain and paint damage was not substantiated...
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A Standard Hard to Emulate

Newspaper article by Kenneth Smith; The Washington Times, June 28, 1997

Subjects:

Dukakis, Michael S.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...through the half-billion-dollar National Acid Precipitation Assessment Project report and put the non-risk of acid rain in perspective. The government could...said the report. Or it could lime all the acid lakes for a total of $1 million a year...
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Wet Wet Wet

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), August 24, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...could change rain acidity. 32 Despite this, acid rain was not considered an environmental concern...of thunderstorms. 47 More heavy one-day precipitation events and five-day precipitation totals are occurring in many northern hemisphere...
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Fragile Wonders of the Wye Start to Flow Back Again

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), July 25, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...compounded in areas where the land is unable to offer a buffer to acid rain and this results in low calcium ions. Coniferous forests, which attract and retain acidic precipitation, result in waters of low pH, and water from forested areas is always...
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The City That Is Britain's Dustbin; the Green Gauleiters Who Force Us to Recycle Our Rubbish Imagine They Are Saving the Planet. Tell That to the Chinese Workers and Their Children Who Are Paid [Pounds Sterling]1.70 a Day to Turn It into Yet More Unwanted Packaging

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), September 3, 2006

Subjects:

Children--Environmental aspects, Packaging--Environmental aspects, Refuse and refuse disposal, Waste management

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...most toxic places on Earth. Studies by environmental pressure group Greenpeace found that 55 per cent of the precipitation here is acid rain. Len Li Gen, 37 - who moved his wife Lui Xiao Mei, 36, and 18-monthold daughter Xiao Yu Dian (whose name...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: acid precipitation

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Acid Rain

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

ACID RAIN or acid deposition, form of precipitation (rain, snow, sleet, or hail) containing...combine with atmospheric moisture, acid rain can contaminate drinking water...Europe, especially Scandinavia. Acid rain became a political issue in...
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Coagulation

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...throughout a liquid (a sol), usually followed by the precipitation or separation of the solid mass from the liquid...is coagulated (curdled) by the addition of acetic acid or citric acid. The albumin in egg white is coagulated by heating...
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Denaturation

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...to cause denaturation. Extensive unfolding sometimes causes precipitation of the protein from solution. Denaturation is defined as a...cleavage of any of the primary chemical bonds that link one amino acid to another. Treatment of proteins with strong acids or bases...
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Cysteine

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...whose symptoms is a twentyfold to thirtyfold increase in urinary excretion of cystine, is the precipitation of this relatively insoluble amino acid in the kidney, impairing its function. A similar sort of renal failure often accompanies cystinosis...
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Mining

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...where the mineral or metal is taken out of solution by precipitation or by ion exchange (e.g., the Frasch process ). In glory-hole...and smelters can cause sulfurous dust clouds that result in acid rain. Abandoned strip mines have often been used as unregulated...

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