Environmental catastrophe

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Jouzel J, G. Hoffmann G, Koster RD, Masson V (2000) Water isotopes in precipitation data/model comparison for present-day and past chmates. Quat Sci Rev 19 363-379 Kagan E, Agnon A, Bar-Matthews M, Ayalon A (2002) Cave deposits as recorders of paleoseismicity A record from two caves located 60 km west of the Dead Sea Transform (Jerusalem, Israel). In Environmental Catastrophes and Recoveries in the Holocene (onhne abstract http //atlas-conferences.com/cgi-bin/abstract/caiq-38)... 

Because of the risk of environmental catastrophe due to the spilling of organic pollutants in water streams and increasing public concern, the establishment of limits on the suitable levels of particular contaminants in the environment exist. In this regard, adsorption methods are widely accepted as one of the successful processes to establish these limits. 

Much of the evidence for the adverse reproductive effects of selected toxicants will be based on cases involving wildlife exposures to environmental contaminants or on the experimental results of research exposing laboratory animals to large, pharmacological doses of potential toxicants. When available, data will be presented from accidental or intentional human and domestic animal exposures to toxicants associated with riot control and chemical warfare or with environmental catastrophes where incidences of infertility, abortion, and teratogenesis have been traced over the course of a number of years. 

The correlation between oceanic plateau formation and marine environmental catastrophes (characterized by mass extinction, oceanic anoxia and black shale deposition) throughout the Mesozoic period suggests a causal link between oceanic plateau formation and environmental crises. 

It is interesting to compare the gaseous and particulate emissions from the 1997 fires in Kalimantan and Sumatra with those from the Kuwait oil fires of 1991, described as a major environmental catastrophe. Laursen et al. (1992) have calculated the emissions of CO2, CO, CH4, NOjc, and particulates from the Kuwait oil fires in units of metric tons per day. The Laursen et al. (1992) calculations are summarized in Table 9. To compare these calculations with the calculations for Kalimantan and Sumatra (Table 8), we have normalized our calculations by the total number of days of burning. The SPOT images (Liew et al., 1998) covered a period of 5 months (August-December 1997) or 150d. 

Human health biomonitoring using biomarkers and chemical analyses are used in the following applications (1) Health surveillance of persons who are known to have high occupational or environmental exposures to potentially toxic chemicals. This may include those who work with chemicals, radioactive materials, or biohazards as part of their occupation. Examples include factory workers, chemical industry employees, farmers, health care professionals, nuclear plant employees, and veterans of the Gulf War I. This may also consist of those who are involuntarily exposed to such hazards in their everyday surroundings. Some examples are people living near land fills, factories, hazardous waste sites, or environmental catastrophes such as the Chernobyl... 

Baillie, M.G.L. 2001. Tree ring records and environmental catastrophes. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 26(2) 87-89. 

Especially in recent years, many newspaper articles and televised reports have covered the problems related to the CW dumped into the Baltic and the North Sea, and an alarm has been sounded as to the risk of an environmental catastrophe if the chemical warfare agents are released from the corroded ammunition. Not all the information presented has been serious or truly scientifically based. It should also be remembered that in 1992 reports appeared that in the vicinity of the Danish island Bornholm, where artillery shells containing mustard gas and tabun were dumped, a large gas bubble composed of warfare agent gas had formed on the bottom of the Baltic Sea. This was soon dismissed by experts as scientifically unfeasible. ... 

Nnmerous environmental catastrophes resnlting from the improper disposal practices of the wastes of different kinds have caused increased public awareness of the growing problem of waste generated in all sectors of the pnblic, industry, and government. Waste minimization and recycling provides only a partial solution. Fnrther stringent measures must be taken to solve the problem of waste disposal completely. The United States generates approximately 0.4 x 10 lb of waste every year, and even with extensive waste minimization plans, this amount is projected to increase at a rate of 1% annually [26]. 

Local effects as well as the effectiveness of remedial strategies implemented are fairly easy to monitor and validate. For instance, when 700 oil wells in Kuwait were set ablaze by the retreating Iraqi forces in 1991, it spawned a severe local short-term environmental catastrophe. But the extent of damage and the success of control measure used by the lire control teams could be easily monitored. The same was not true of long-term effects of mercury waste being dumped into Minamata Bay in Japan the more serious impacts occurred in the future, while there was no immediate recognition of a threat to local community. ... 

Valuable transgenic Unes can be frozen and preserved indefinitely by cryopreservation. Cryopreservation protects the transgene line from environmental catastrophes but is also an economical and labor-saving method of preserving lines for future detailed analysis. 

Other environmental catastrophes in the United States occurred at about the same time as the Santa Barbara spill. The most famous of these was probably when the highly polluted Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio burst into flames about 6 months later. There was also a heightened awareness of air and water pollution in general, and of the impact of toxic chemicals such as DDT. 

Current research activities on environmental fiber-optic chenfical sensors are focused on developing multianalyte sensors for on-line and in situ monitoring. These sensors may one day be used as environmental warning devices that will help prevent environmental catastrophes by triggering an alarm whenever uncontrolled release of pollutants to the environment occurs. 

Jiang Y, (2007). China warns of environmental catastrophe from Three Gorges dam. Retrieved January 21st and 25th, from http //news.xinhuanet.eom/english/2007-09-26/ content 6864252.htm... 

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