Increased water temperature/ocean acidification -> Coral stress -> Algae expulsion -> Coral turns white -> Potential death of coral.

Industrial waste contaminates bay with mercury -> Mercury absorbed by small organisms -> Small organisms consumed by fish -> Fish consumed by humans -> Mercury concentrates in humans, causing Minamata Disease.

NOx emissions -> UV light reacts with NOx -> Formation of ozone and other pollutants -> Photochemical smog.

To clean up abandoned hazardous waste sites and protect human health and the environment.

The Great Smog in London led to revisions to the Clean Air Act and requirements for scrubbers in industrial factories.

A reversal of the normal decrease of air temperature with altitude, trapping pollutants near the ground.

The increasing concentration of a substance, such as a toxic chemical, in the tissues of organisms at successively higher levels in a food chain.

The ongoing decrease in the pH of the Earth's oceans, caused by the uptake of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere.

Smog resulting from emissions from industry and other sources of gases, especially sulfur oxides, and particulate matter; also known as gray smog.

Smog produced when ultraviolet light from the sun reacts with pollutants in the air; also known as brown smog.

A severe nuclear reactor accident that results in core damage from overheating.

When chemicals interfere with the endocrine system and cause adverse developmental, reproductive, neurological, and immune effects in both humans and wildlife.

The expulsion of algae from coral reefs due to environmental changes, causing the coral to turn white.

A fund established to finance the cleanup of uncontrolled hazardous waste sites.

A highly toxic chemical compound that was released in the Bhopal disaster.