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Mining & Materials
The topic area of mining and materials covers the extraction and use of substances for human purposes and the related impacts and consequences, such as pollution. It includes mining and resource extraction practices and impacts in all locations, including off-shore and into water bodies and the atmosphere. It includes materials in all forms from elemental (overlapping with chemistry) to manufactured products and side- or waste-materials. It includes industrial processes, material and waste management. It includes practices and policies related to mining and materials, including drivers like consumption patterns and resource economics.
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Cabo de Gata-Nijar Natural Park, Andalucia,...
Cabo de Gata-Nijar Natural Park lies along the Alboran Sea of the Mediterranean coast of Andalucia, Spain. The most arid area in the entirety of Europe, it boasts varied... More »
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China’s Rare Earth Industry
?Main Image: These rare-earth oxides are used as tracers to determine which parts of a watershed are eroding. Clockwise from top center: praseodymium, cerium, lanthanum,... More »
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Tool for Measuring Indoor Air Pollutants
?Main Image: Inside the test chamber, the thin-film sample (measuring 6 centimeters on a side), which has been suffused with vapors of a common VOC, releases gas emissions at a... More »
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Building for Environmental and Economic...
The BEES (Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability) model provides a powerful technique for selecting cost-effective, environmentally-preferable building... More »
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Gold mining and sustainability: A critical...
The mining of gold is commonly perceived as ‘unsustainable’ – after all, gold is a metal with finite resources. A more comprehensive analysis of... More »
Extraterrestrial soils
Last Updated on 2013-05-20 at 04:04
Extraterrestrial soils may be defined as any of the solid granular crustal features of planets and moon other than those soils on planet Earth. Despite four decades of space... More »
Dead Sea
Last Updated on 2013-05-13 at 23:29
The Dead Sea is a hypersaline lake that forms part of the border between Jordan from Israel, and that has no outlet and only one principal source, the Jordan River.
This is... More »
Cadmium
Last Updated on 2013-05-04 at 14:10
Cadmium is a very soft, silvery-white metallic element. Its atomic number is 48, with the atomic symbol Cd. It is so soft that it can be cut with a knife. Cadmium... More »
Orange River
Last Updated on 2013-05-02 at 13:22
The Orange River is the longest watercourse in Southern Africa. Lying south of the Zambezi River, The Orange River rises in the Drakensberg Mountains and flows westward to... More »
Vaal River
Last Updated on 2013-05-02 at 13:21
The Vaal River rises in the Drakensberg Mountains within the nation of South Africa and is the chief tributary of the Orange River. At 1105 kilometres in length, the Vaal is... More »
Point source pollution
Last Updated on 2013-04-05 at 16:34
Point Source
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) defines point source pollution as “any single identifiable source of pollution from which... More »
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