Radium and radon are important contributors to environmental radioactivity. Radon occurs naturally as a result of decay of radioactive elements in soil...

are the immediate decay products of radium isotopes. The instability of 222Rn, its most stable isotope, makes radon one of the rarest elements. Radon will...

long-lived isotope 244Pu may exist primordially. Uranium in the environment Radium in the environment Background radiation Radioecology Wu, Yang; Dai, Xiongxin;...

product radon as well as its tendency to accumulate in the bones. Radium, in the form of radium chloride, was discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898...

with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in plasma and human milk in the New Hampshire Birth Cohort Study". Science of the Total Environment. 933: 173157...

Since the mid-20th century, plutonium in the environment has been primarily produced by human activity. The first plants to produce plutonium for use in Cold...

consume oxygen. The breakdown of phytoplankton in the environment depends on the presence of oxygen, and once oxygen is no longer in the bodies of water...

longest-lived nuclide in the gap is radon-222 with a half life of less than four days). Radium's longest lived isotope, at 1,600 years, thus merits the element's...

in the Vietnamese environment since the war, settling in the soil and sediment and entering the food chain through animals and fish which feed in the...

1994. The Canada-US Air Quality Agreement was signed in 1991. In 1998, all federal, provincial, and territorial Ministers of Energy and Environment signed...

scientific and medical bodies for its effects on health. A naturally-occurring gas formed as a decay product of radium, radon is one of the densest substances...

Polluted Countries in 2022 - PM2.5 Ranking | IQAir". www.iqair.com. Retrieved 2023-06-29. IQAir World Air Quality Ranking Portals: Ecology Environment Lists...

as in natural containers, such as hollow tree trunks, leaf sheaths, etc. To avoid ground and surface water stagnation, the drainage of surface and subsoil...

wastes eliminates the risk that pathogens and pollutants contained in sewage wastes might pose to the environment. Utilization of green waste to dispose...

planetary resources, and aesthetics. The aim of waste management is to reduce the dangerous effects of such waste on the environment and human health. A big...

Compounds in the Environment". Open Chemist. Archived from the original on 10 March 2007. Smart, N. A. (1968). "Use and residues of mercury compounds in agriculture"...

Eutrophication in water bodies is another effect large populations in cities have on the environment. When rain occurs in these large cities, it filters CO2 and other...

Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause harm. Pollution can take the form of any substance (solid, liquid...

danger of CFCs and HCFCs to the environment. The ozone hole is usually measured by reduction in the total column ozone above a point on the Earth's surface...

between PM2.5 pollution and Covid-19 mortality in Western Europe for the 2020–2022 period". The Science of the Total Environment. 848: 157579. Bibcode:2022ScTEn...

oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment, especially the marine ecosystem, due to human activity, and is a form of...

cessation and closure of windows and doors. Radon is an invisible, radioactive atomic gas that results from the radioactive decay of radium, which may...

Schönbein in 1867. For much of the second half of the 19th century and well into the 20th, ozone was considered a healthy component of the environment by naturalists...

Archived from the original on 27 March 2015. National Research Council (U.S.). Ad Hoc Committee on the Solar System Radiation Environment and NASA's Vision...

management practices of the electronics being recycled, worker health and safety, and consideration for the environment locally and abroad. In Europe, metals that...

health or the environment."  Hazardous Waste falls under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA).  Under the RCRA, the EPA has the authority...

are radium-226 (decay product of thorium-230 in decay chain of uranium-238) and radon-222 (a decay product of radium-226 in said chain). Thorium and uranium...

human health[citation needed] and the environment because they contain harmful chemicals which leak into the air, water, and food. Microplastics cause pollution...

otherwise dark conditions. The term is most commonly used in relation to in the outdoor environment and surrounding, but is also used to refer to artificial...

naturally generated radon gas which can affect instruments that are set to detect contamination close to normal background levels and can cause false alarms...