Includes appendix and index.

Contents: Part I: Atmospheric chemistry and air pollution: Stratospheric chemistry: the ozone layer -- The ozone holes -- The chemistry of ground-level air pollution -- The environmental and health consequences of polluted air - outdoors and indoors -- Part II: Energy and climate change: The greenhouse effect -- Energy use, fossil fuels, CO2 emissions and global climate change -- Biofuel and other alternative fuels -- Renewable energy technologies: hydroelectric, wind, solar, geothermal, and marine energy and their storage -- Radioactivity, radon, and nuclear energy -- Part III: Water chemistry and water pollution: The chemistry of natural waters -- The pollution and purification of water -- Toxic heavy metals -- Part IV: Toxic organic compounds: Pesticides -- Dioxins, furans, and PCBs -- Other toxic organic compounds of environmental concern -- Part V: Environment and the solid state: Wastes, soils, and sediments -- Part VI: Advanced atmosphere chemistry: The detailed free-radical chemical of the atmosphere.