Environment Pollution Information & Resources

1. Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution

Advises on environmental issues and provides a brief summary of previous reports.

http://www.rcep.org.uk/

2. TakingITGlobal - Understanding - Environment - Pollution

As time passes and our population continues to grow, the effects of pollution on the environment only worsen.

http://www.takingitglobal.org/understanding/environment/pollution

3. WHO | Environmental pollution

Environmental pollution. This page provides links to descriptions of activities, reports, news and events, as well as contacts and cooperating partners

http://www.who.int/topics/environmental_pollution/en/

Global Carbon and the Environment

Al Gore's documentary film, "An Inconvenient Truth" is helping to make Americans more aware of the challenges they and the rest of the world face in the very near future, as carbon dioxide levels rise at a stagge...

By: Arthur Campbell

Are Disposable Nappies Really Bad for the Environment?

We read it in the press all the time; how disposable nappies contribute to the growing problem of waste management, the impact of disposable nappies on landfill sites and the overuse of synthetic chemicals in nappy compone...

By: Jack Prime

Battery Recycling: Help Your Environment

Batteries may contain harmful metals and chemicals such as nickel cadmium, alkaline, mercury, nickel metal hydride and lead acid, which can contaminate the environment if not disposed properly. For example, when batteries ...

By: George Royal

Tucked away in a vine-draped building along the gritty Ballard waterfront is the office of an environmental group where a war on pollution churns away daily, taking on outfits that state and federa...

More than half a century ago, in a cold, wet and mountainous corner of Australia, Alec Costin was known as the real Man from Snowy River.

The mysterious decline in honeybees has generated renewed interest into finding new ways to boost bee numbers.

The Nature Conservancy has bought 146 acres, including tidelands, at Lily Point and will turn over the land to Whatcom County as part of the new Lily Point Marine Reserve.

State wildlife officials are putting on two clinics near Babcock for people who want to learn more about gray wolves.