Radium and radon are important contributors to environmental radioactivity. Radon occurs naturally as a result of decay of radioactive elements in soil...
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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...
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long-lived isotope 244Pu may exist primordially. Uranium in the environment Radium in the environment Background radiation Radioecology Wu, Yang; Dai, Xiongxin;...
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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...
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with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in plasma and human milk in the New Hampshire Birth Cohort Study". Science of the Total Environment. 933: 173157...
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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...
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Agent Orange (redirect from The Pointman Project)
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...
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Hypoxia (environmental) (redirect from Anaerobic environment)
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...
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Waste management (redirect from Use and disposal)
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...
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Water stagnation (category Pages using sidebar with the child parameter)
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...
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Acid rain (category Pages using sidebar with the child parameter)
1994. The Canada-US Air Quality Agreement was signed in 1991. In 1998, all federal, provincial, and territorial Ministers of Energy and Environment signed...
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Sonar (redirect from Sound navigation and ranging)
fish for presence/absence studies in various aquatic environments – see also passive acoustics and passive radar. In the very broadest usage, this term can...
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Oil spill (category Pages using sidebar with the child parameter)
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...
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Green waste (category Pages using sidebar with the child parameter)
wastes eliminates the risk that pathogens and pollutants contained in sewage wastes might pose to the environment. Utilization of green waste to dispose...
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Pollution (redirect from Pollution and health)
Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause harm. Pollution can take the form of any substance (solid, liquid...
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Urbanization (redirect from Urbanization and health)
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...
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Radioactive waste (redirect from Low and intermediate level waste)
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...
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Unexploded ordnance (redirect from Unexploded ordnance in the United States)
occupation of Southern Lebanon and the 2006 Lebanon War. This leaves the farmers to need to adapt to the bomb-filled environment as post-war efforts to remove...
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Indoor air quality (redirect from Indoors environment)
cessation and closure of windows and doors. Radon is an invisible, radioactive atomic gas that results from the radioactive decay of radium, which may...
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Ozone depletion (redirect from Hole in the ozone layer)
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...
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Light pollution (category Pages using sidebar with the child parameter)
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...
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Mercury (element) (category Occupational safety and health)
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"...
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Background radiation (section Food and water)
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...
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List of countries by air pollution (category Environment-related lists by country)
Polluted Countries in 2022 - PM2.5 Ranking | IQAir". www.iqair.com. Retrieved 2023-06-29. IQAir World Air Quality Ranking Portals: Ecology Environment Lists...
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human health[citation needed] and the environment because they contain harmful chemicals which leak into the air, water, and food. Microplastics cause pollution...
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Depleted uranium (redirect from Depleted uranium (Health and environmental issues))
"Uranium contents and atom ratios in soil and earthworms in western Kosovo after the 1999 war". Science of the Total Environment. 337 (1–3): 109–118...
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Information pollution (category Pages using sidebar with the child parameter)
information in order to make decisions and adapt to circumstances. Cognitive studies demonstrated human beings can process only limited information before the quality...
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Acute radiation syndrome (redirect from Signs and symptoms of radiation poisoning)
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...
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Garbage (category Pages using sidebar with the child parameter)
disposed of, and which therefore enters the environment. Notably, however, only a small fraction of garbage that is generated becomes litter, with the vast majority...
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Electronic waste (redirect from Computers and the environment)
management practices of the electronics being recycled, worker health and safety, and consideration for the environment locally and abroad. In Europe, metals that...
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