Pollutants, some pollutants have been created by us molecules like PCBs that can't be broken down by our bodies.

They pour huge amounts of pollutants into the ocean.

It's also increasing fixing CO2s, sequestering some of the airborne pollutants.

Which is surprising to me, because these chemical pollutants, through my research,

Pollutants like this derive mainly from the combustion of fuel in car engines.

You can make a biocensor out of yeast to detect pollutants in water.

It causes pollutants being issued, which have an economic cost, health cost and so on.

That 99 percent of the time when a firetruck is not parking there, it's infiltrating pollutants.

For example, volatile organic compounds are chemical pollutants that are found in our schools, homes and workplaces.

These chemical pollutants are currently not a criteria air pollutant, as defined by the U.S. Clean Air Act.

Small bits of plastic concentrate persistent organic pollutants up to a million times their levels in the surrounding seawater.

With this question in mind, I started researching, and I soon found that indoor air pollutants were the culprit.

Get all the plastic out and simultaneously remove tons and tons of persistent organic pollutants from the marine environment.

I investigated the underlying relationship between four prevalent air pollutants and their affect on the lung health of asthmatic patients.

Can you imagine the potential offspring applications environmental detection of pollutants in soils, customs applications, detection of illicit goods in containers and so on.

But soon after, I developed a novel mathematical model that essentially quantifies the effect of these environmental pollutants on the lung health of asthmatic patients.

At first, I just wanted to figure out which of these four pollutants have the largest negative health impact on the lung health of asthmatic patients.

These are little opportunities to intercept those pollutants before they enter the harbor, and they're produced by impatients on various city blocks in some very interesting ways.

But fire also leaves the soil bare, releasing carbon, and worse than that, burning one hectare of grassland gives off more, and more damaging, pollutants than 6,000 cars.

And they're geographically more limited than you are, because we don't know if you've been exposed to persistent organic pollutants in your home, or occupationally or as a child.

The Center for Disease Control in the U.S. says we have 219 toxic pollutants in our bodies, and this includes preservatives, pesticides and heavy metals like lead and mercury.

And air quality and air pollutants have a huge impact on the lung health of asthmatic patients, anyone with a respiratory disorder and really all of us in general.

So I'm very passionate about this research and I really want to continue it and expand it to more disorders besides asthma, more respiratory disorders, as well as more pollutants.

If you're trying to influence corporations to change their behavior, with regard to producing pollutants, one approach, the common approach, is to exhort them to be better, to explain to them what damage they're doing to the planet.

So my premise here is that nuclear energy puts out more carbon dioxide, puts out more air pollutants, enhances mortality more and takes longer to put up than real renewable energy systems, namely wind, solar, geothermal power, hydro tidal wave power.

In fact, most of the people studying bioluminescence today are focused on the chemistry, because these chemicals have proved so incredibly valuable for developing antibacterial agents, cancer fighting drugs, testing for the presence of life on Mars, detecting pollutants in our waters which is how we use it at ORCA.

And it's a lively and a lovely place, but we're rapidly changing the oceans with our not only with our overfishing, our irresponsible fishing, our adding of pollutants like fertilizer from our cropland, but also, most recently, with climate change, and Steve Schneider, I'm sure, will be going into greater detail on this.