pollution

Courses tagged with "pollution"

Explore the personal side of climate change with Paul Sherville's diary entry.
Explore the personal side of climate change with Jackie Orman's diary entry.
To be able to understand the importance of the environment for our health, we need to know a little about the interdependence between environment and humankind. This free course, Health and environment, will look at interactions between plants, animals and the physical and chemical environment, as well as considering ways in which humans have altered, and are altering this environment.
Category: Health
William arrives in Sheffield - finding a city struggling environmentally and economically.
Category: History
How did clear thought help during the water contamination disaster at Camelford?
Aviation comes under the spotlight in the quest to reduce CO2 emissions.
PY Gerbeau discusses 'The Lifecycle of the Car Industry' in the BBC/Open University's Rules of the Game.
Neither hybrid cars nor organic food come cheap. Does it cost too much to be green?
Tim Halliday asks whether the sixth great extinction is being foreshadowed by amphibians in decline?
Category: Natural History
The photos of birds killed by bellies full of plastic waste are harrowing - but why do they eat the stuff in the first place? The OU's Miranda Dyson explains.
The discovery of plastic unleashed humanity's creativity, as we embraced the magic of this versatile product. But it was at a cost - has the material which made the 21st Century brought about an environmental catastrophe?
The smallest specks of air pollution can create enormous storms in the rainforest - and we don't yet understand enough about this, reports Rodrigo de Oliveira Andrade.
The media has moved on since the burning oil wells were extinguished, but for Iraqis, the pollution impacts add to the day-to-day misery.
Planting trees seems to be a good thing, ecologically. But... what if the saplings come wrapped in plastic bags? Kenyan Teddy Kinyanjui has come up with an elegant solution to take the plastic out of the forest.
The Indian city is seeing levels of dangerous pollution - similar to those that killed Londoners in 1952. Ranjit Devraj shines a light through the gloom.
Every time you wash your clothes, microfibres escape into the environment. And that, explains Dr Natalie Welden, is a huge threat to our oceans.
Will Brexit mean a filthy bonfire of the regulations protecting our lungs?
Where did the brown cloud covering East Asia come from and what’s it made of?
Use this interactive to compare journeys and their environmental effects