Acid rain
Acid rain is rain droplets containing sulphuric oxides (SO2 and SO3) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2).
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BAT (Best Available Techniques)
Best Available Techniques (BAT)
Environmental biotechnology
Environmental biotechnology is a term to describe the scientific engineering of biological systems for environment-friendly processes, such as green manufacturing and clean-up pollution.
Environmental engineering
Environmental engineering is a term that describes and refers to a derivative of civil engineering concerned with the development of processes and infrastructure for the supply of water, the disposal of waste and the control of pollution of all kind,
Fracking (hydraulic fracturing)
Fracking (hydraulic fracturing) of rock deep beneath the surface to release petroleum product has become a contentious subject across the globe. This practice is not to be mixed up with drilling or extraction.
Global Commons
Global Commons is a term used to describe the resource domain that lies outside of the political reach of any one state.
Green Chemistry
Green chemistry is a term used on an emerging field of science that develops chemicals to be benign. Rather than presuming to keep human and ecological exposures to chemicals within levels of toxicity deemed “acceptable,”, sustainable chemistry aims to make chemicals inherently safe.
Heavy metals
Heavy metal is a term used to describe a subset of a large number of metals and metalloids with high atomic(such as chromium, cadmium, arsenic and mercury), listed in the periodic table of the elements, which have properties of both metals and non-metals.
