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title: Environmental Chemistry
description: Environmental chemistry examines the chemical processes occurring in water, air, soil, and living environments. Learners will understand the chemical basis of pollution, greenhouse effects, waste management, and the transport of contaminants through ecosystems.
category: sciences
subcategory: chemistry
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
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# Environmental Chemistry

Environmental chemistry examines the chemical processes occurring in water, air, soil, and living environments. Learners will understand the chemical basis of pollution, greenhouse effects, waste management, and the transport of contaminants through ecosystems.

## Available Resources

3 Books • 1 Courses • 2 Websites

## Courses

### 1. Marine Chemistry (MIT 12.742)

**Author:** Dierdre Toole, Karen Casciotti, Meg Tivey et al.

Graduate introduction to chemical oceanography: reservoir models and residence time, seawater major ions, river, atmosphere and seafloor fluxes, particle cycling, and carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, oxygen and sulfur cycles. 12 recorded lectures, slide notes and problem sets explain ocean uptake of anthropogenic CO2.

**Difficulty:** Advanced | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/12-742-marine-chemistry-fall-2006/

**Tags:** chemical-oceanography, seawater-chemistry, biogeochemical-cycles, ocean-carbon-cycle, marine-sediments

## Books

### 1. Environmental Chemistry

**Author:** Stanley E. Manahan

Manahan's survey textbook covering water, air, soil, and industrial chemistry alongside toxicological chemistry and waste treatment. Provides the vocabulary and reaction fundamentals needed to read environmental pollution literature, with each chapter built on general chemistry background.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/156670491X?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, science-research, chemistry

### 2. Chemistry of the Environment

**Author:** Thomas G. Spiro, William M. Stigliani

Undergraduate text organized around energy, the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, and the biosphere, tracing pollution problems back to underlying chemical mechanisms. Readers gain a quantitative basis for evaluating claims about climate, ozone depletion, acid rain, and water quality.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0137548966?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, science-research, chemistry

### 3. Green Chemistry

**Author:** Rebecca L. Lankey and Paul T. Anastas (editors)

American Chemical Society symposium volume in which researchers examine how green chemistry and engineering principles apply to industrial processes, life-cycle assessment, and policy. Readers come away understanding how sustainability metrics are built into chemical design decisions.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0841237786?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, science-research, chemistry

## Websites

### 1. epa.gov/chemical-research

EPA's Chemical Research page is the agency's hub for chemical safety science, with information on toxicology, exposure, and risk assessment research and links to datasets, models, and tools used to study and regulate chemicals.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://epa.gov/chemical-research

**Tags:** websites, science-research, chemistry

### 2. acs.org/green

ACS Green Chemistry provides resources on green chemistry principles, sustainable lab practices, and environmentally friendly chemical design, with articles, case studies, and teaching materials for students and educators.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://acs.org/green

**Tags:** websites, science-research, chemistry

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