Main article: Regulation and monitoring of pollutionTo protect the environment from the adverse effects of pollution, many nations worldwide have enacted legislation to regulate various types of pollu ...
Human healthOverview of main health effects on humans from some common types of pollution.Adverse air quality can kill many organisms including humans. Ozone pollution can cause respiratory disease, c ...
Air pollution comes from both natural and human-made (anthropogenic) sources. However, globally human-made pollutants from combustion, construction, mining, agriculture and warfare are increasingly si ...
The major forms of pollution are listed below along with the particular contaminant relevant to each of them:Air pollution:- the release of chemicals and particulates into the atmosphere. Common gaseo ...
Pollution became a popular issue after World War II, due to radioactive fallout from atomic warfare and testing. Then a non-nuclear event, The Great Smog of 1952 in London, killed at least 4000 people ...
King Edward I of England banned the burning of sea-coal by proclamation in London in 1272, after its smoke became a problem. But the fuel was so common in England that this earliest of names for it wa ...
Air pollution has always accompanied civilizations. Pollution started from prehistoric times when man created the first fires. According to a 1983 article in the journal Science, "soot found on ceilin ...
Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change. Pollution can take the form of chemical substances or energy, such as noise, heat or light. Pollut ...
Biotechnology This section requires expansion. (June 2008)Main article: History of biotechnologyTo be incorporated into main article:Timeline of agriculture and food technologyCivil engineering This s ...
Olduvai stone technology (Olduwan) 2.5 million years ago (scrapers; to butcher dead animals)Acheulean stone technology 1.6 million years ago (hand axe)Fire creation and manipulation, used since the Pa ...
Many sociologists and anthropologists have created social theories dealing with social and cultural evolution. Some, like Lewis H. Morgan, Leslie White, and Gerhard Lenski, declare technological progr ...
The history of technology is the history of the invention of tools and techniques, and is similar in many ways to the history of humanity. Background knowledge has enabled people to create new things, ...
Annals of ScienceThe British Journal for the History of ScienceCentaurusDynamisHistory and Technology (magazine)History of Technology (book series)Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sci ...
Argentina Buenos Aires Institute of Technology, Argentina, has been offering courses on History of the Technology and the Science.National Technological University, Argentina, has a complete history p ...
