Topic+5+Pollution

=Topic 5 Pollution Summary Outline= =Presentations= =Videos= Here is a good [|TED talk] from [|Stephen Palumbi] on [|biomagnification in ocean food chains], with the resulting human health impacts: media type="youtube" key="ooAIIeo4AJQ" height="400" width="600" align="center"

And this article from Science Daily outlines the work of a team of researchers as they [|demonstrate biomagnification in a simple food chain], with links to vesicles. media type="youtube" key="qUfVMogIdr8" height="400" width="600" align="center"

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http://www.ted.com  Bill Gates hopes to solve some of the world's biggest problems using a new kind of philanthropy. In a passionate and, yes, funny 18 minutes, he asks us to consider two big questions and how we might answer them media type="custom" key="25628934" align="center"

**Topic 5.1: Nature of pollution**
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**Topic 5.2: Detection and Monitoring of Pollution**
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**Topic 5.2: Detection and monitoring of pollution part 2**
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**Topic 5.3: Approaches to pollution management**
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**Topic 5.4: Eutrophication**
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**Topic 5.5: Solid domestic waste**
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Tristram Stuart sounds the warning bell on global food waste, calling for us to change the systems whereby large quantities of produce and other foods end up in trash heaps. media type="custom" key="21261976" align="center"
 * TedTalk Tristram Stuart: The global food waste scandal**

Topic 5.6 Depletion of stratospheric ozone part 1
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Topic 5.7 Urban Air Pollution
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Topic 5.8: Acid Deposition
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=Resources= **5.3.3 Evaluate the costs and benefits to society of the World Health Organisations' ban on the use of pesticide DDT.** [] Algae Identification Websites: Microscopy UK Micrographia THE SEARCH FOR 'GREEN' YOUTH ENVOYS Come and be an envoy with NEA's Youth Environment Envoy Programme Sign-up and be all you can be for the environment! Click here for the website and information of how to join.

Semakau Landfill has a landfill capacity of 64 million cubic metres. To create the required landfill space, a 7km perimeter rock bund was built to enclose a part of the sea off Pulau Semakau and Pulau Sakeng. Check out the National Environment Agency (NEA) site for more information. This is a website for monitoring streams. It has a very nice biotic index as well as information regarding DO, turbidity, and methods to monitor a stream. Water Action Volunteers

A web site covering graphics on ground level ozone. Pollution Management. AIRNow

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