Hot Topics: Everyday Environmental Concerns

by S.A. Abbasi

Acid rain, global warming, ozone holes, and radioactive waves are no longer issues discussed on a purely academic level but very real dangers and threats, many of them actualized in some parts of the world. Our understanding of the environment and its degeneration has undergone a tremendous change since the sixties when phrases such as "the greenhouse effect" gained currency. Hot Topics addresses the change, explaining in detail environmental terms...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195645340
• ISBN13: 9780195645347
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.6"