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The following is list of articles from Know Your Environment are grouped under four categories: Human Influences, Natural Resources, Public Policy, and Technology and The Environment. The articles with web links are presently available online. The remaining articles are currently only available in print; online versions will be added on an ongoing basis. If you wish for a printed copy of any of these articles, contact Roland Wall at 215 299-1108 or . Postal queries should be addressed to:

Roland Wall
Environmental Associates
The Academy of Natural Sciences
1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, PA, 19103-1101 (United States)

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Human Influences

  1. Air, Water, and Methyl Tertiary-Butyl Ether: An Environmental Balancing Act
  2. "Emerging" Contaminants in U.S. Water Supplies:
    Part 1 - A New Kind of Pollution
  3. "Emerging" Contaminants in U.S. Water Supplies:
    Part 2 - Environmental and Human Health
  4. Farm Grown Deserts
  5. Forced Out: The Environmental Impacts of Involuntary Human Migration
  6. Invaders from Earth
  7. Lewis and Clark: Environmental Science in Early America:
    Part 1 - The Philadelphia Connection
  8. Losing Ground:
    Part 1 - The Dimensions of Urban Sprawl
  9. Losing Ground:
    Part 2 - How Urban Sprawl Affects the Landscape
  10. PCBs: A Persistent Issue
  11. Shipping and the Environment:
    Part 1 - Environmental Protection on the High Seas
  12. Shipping and the Environment:
    Part 2 - The Unexpected Ways That Ships Affect the Marine Environment
  13. To Road or Not to Road: The National Forest "Roadless" Debate
  14. Towards a Greener Game
  15. Tracks on the Land - Measuring "Ecological Footprints"
  16. Urban Stormwater: A Hidden Problem
  17. War and The Environment

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Natural Resources

  1. Air, Water, and Methyl Tertiary-Butyl Ether: An Environmental Balancing Act
  2. Biodiversity
  3. Butterflies
  4. Current Issues Affecting World Water Supply
  5. Disappearing Ozone: Antarctic
  6. Erosion: Wind and Water, Food and Money
  7. Farm Grown Deserts
  8. Hunger and the Environment
    Part 1 - The Ecological Dimensions of Food Production
  9. Standards for Safe Drinking Water
  10. Open Season on Ozone
  11. On the Trail of the Missing Amphibians
  12. Wetlands Are More Than Mere Swamps

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Public Policy

  1. Brownfields: The Fine Art of Recycling Land
  2. The Clean Water Act: Thirty Years Later
    Part 1 - Origins, Concepts and Citizen Action
  3. The Clean Water Act: Thirty Years Later
    Part 2 - Current Issues
  4. The Clean Water Act: Thirty Years Later
    Part 3 - Selected Topics For The Future
  5. Environmental Policy in the 21st Century: Part 1
  6. Nutrient Trading:
    Part 1 - Harnessing commerce as a tool to control water pollution
  7. Nutrient Trading:
    Part 2 - Theory Meets Practice
  8. To Road or Not to Road: The National Forest "Roadless" Debate -
    Is Environmental Data the Missing Link?
  9. The Value of Ecosystem Services
  10. Watching the River Run: The Science of Sustainable Flow
    Part 1 - Rivers, ecology and "water wars"
  11. Watching the River Run: The Science of Sustainable Flow
    Part 2 - Adaptive management and the limits of science

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Technology and The Environment

  1. Getting Smarter About Pests
  2. Growing Cleaner I
  3. Growing Cleaner II
  4. The Hydrogen Fuel Cell
  5. Industrial Ecology
  6. Remote Sensing: The View From Above

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