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  2. Peter Brimblecombe - Wikipedia

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    He has published numerous papers on the effects of air pollution on historic buildings and monuments, [17] [18] [19] and both historical artifacts and everyday objects. [20] In 2004, he was one of a group of experts from 10 countries involved in a three-year "Noah's Ark" project designed "to investigate the effects of climate change and ...

  3. Fumifugium - Wikipedia

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    The first part of Evelyn's letter describes the details of the problem with the air pollution in London and its effect on human health. [5] He explains that many philosophers believed that air was the most important for the soul and the Earth for we benefit it and therefore it is necessary for survival by the respiration of clean air through the lungs:

  4. Ecopoetry - Wikipedia

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    Ecopoetry is any poetry with a strong ecological or environmental emphasis or message. Many poets and poems in the past have expressed ecological concerns, but only recently has there been an established term to describe them; there is now, in English-speaking poetry, a recognisable subgenre of poetry, termed Ecopoetry, which can, on occasions, form a major strand of a writer's career ...

  5. The Waste Land - Wikipedia

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    The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important English-language poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line [ A ] poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of Eliot's magazine The Criterion and in the United States in the November ...

  6. Air pollution - Wikipedia

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    Air pollution can occur naturally or be caused by human activities. [3] Air pollution causes around 7 or 8 million deaths each year. [4] [5] It is a significant risk factor for a number of pollution-related diseases, including heart disease, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma and lung cancer.

  7. List of environmental books - Wikipedia

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    AP 42 Compilation of Air Pollutant Emission Factors: 1968: Pollution: air pollution: An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming: Nigel Lawson: 2008: Global warming: ISBN 978-0-7156-3786-9 ISBN 978-1-59020-084-1: Aqueous Wastes from Petroleum and Petrochemical Plants: Milton R. Beychok: 1967: Waste: oil refinery and petrochemical wastewaters

  8. 1948 Donora smog - Wikipedia

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    Hydrogen fluoride and sulfur dioxide emissions from U.S. Steel's Donora Zinc Works and its American Steel & Wire plant were frequent occurrences in Donora. What made the 1948 event more severe was a temperature inversion, a situation in which warmer air aloft traps pollution in a layer of colder air near the surface.

  9. List of poems by William Wordsworth - Wikipedia

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    Poems of the Imagination (1815 and 1820); Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803 1807 The Solitary Reaper (VIII) 1803 and 1805 "Behold her, single in the field," Poems of the Imagination (1815 and 1820); Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803 1807 Address to Kilchurn Castle, upon Loch Awe (IX) 1803 "Child of loud-throated War! the mountain Stream"