Indeed, the first instance of "pollution" in the Bible occurs when Cain slays Abel and his blood falls on the ground, rendering it fallow.
This could be China's Cuyahoga moment: when an instance of pollution so severe, like the river that caught fire outside Cleveland in 1969, moves the people, and the government, to action.
The experiment offered a specific example of the progressive impoverishment of vegetation where both cause and effect could be measured, something not possible in most instances of pollution.
Although there have been many instances of pollution from fracking in the US, the government has dismissed concerns about water contamination in Britain, arguing that the existing laws are strong enough to control the industry.
In the instance of indoor pollution, the domestic burning of dirty fuels (wood, coal, dung) for cooking and heating is the greatest producer of ambient particles.
For instance, the deposition of pollution particles in the lung has been shown to vary by sex, with greater lung deposition fractions of 1-μm particles in females compared with males (Kim and Hu 1998; Kohlhaufl et al. 1999), leading to a more female susceptibility to respiratory diseases.
Cruise line instances of crime, pollution and safety and health violations have often gone unpoliced because no single authority is in charge.
In Pennsylvania, the number of confirmed instances of water pollution in the eastern part of the state "dropped quite substantially" in 2013, compared with previous years, Department of Environmental Protection spokeswoman Lisa Kasianowitz wrote in an email.
The suit contended there had been more than a thousand instances of illegal pollution at the plant since 2003, releasing a total of five million pounds of air pollutants into the atmosphere, including toxic chemicals like benzene and 1,3-butadiene, as well as sulfur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen.
Instances of groundwater pollution from use of nitrogenous fertilizer are at increase in recent years.
Introgression and hybridization can be followed by the analysis of entire genomes so that rapidly changing areas of the genome are identified and instances of genetic pollution monitored.
