The decay features of thirty-nine monuments built with granite stones and presenting diverse architectural characteristics, date of construction and environment characteristics (including exposition conditions, traffic intensity, etc) are compare in order to discuss decay patterns and susceptibility of granite types applied in architectural works. Decay patterns of biotite-rich medium to fine-g...

An operational monitoring, as well as high resolution local-scale meteorological and air quality forecasting information system for Western Macedonia, Hellas, has been developed and is operated by the Laboratory of Atmospheric Pollution and Environmental Physics / TEI Western Macedonia since 2002, continuously improved. In this paper the novelty of information system is presented, in a dynamic,...

Environmental monitoring and assessment includes a wide spectrum of study that overlaps many disciplines, all of which are independent. This paper illustrates several broad subjects related to environmental constraints including water pollution, effects of atmospheric contamination, strip mining, and natural disasters. Remote sensing can provide complementary information to existing ground-base...

THE incidence of bronchitis is uncommonly high in Britain, especially in urban areas during winter; and it has been conjectured that air pollution is at least partly responsible. In this paper I report a correlation between bronchitis mortality and the acidity of urban precipitation. The mortality-rates for bronchitis were calculated from the Registrar General’s annual statistical reviews for t...

Three regions of the northern mid-latitudes, the continental-scale metro-agro-plexes, presently dominate global industrial and agricultural productivity. Although these regions cover only 23 percent of the Earth's continents, they account for most of the world's commercial energy consumption, fertilizer use, food-crop production, and food exports. They also account for more than half of the wor...