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Among the numerous and valuable monuments in Lower Silesia, the palace at Kamieniec Ząbkowicki deserves special attention of landscape architects. This object was built on a high slope in the 19th century. Its massive body and four big towers dominate the vast landscape. The palace is a splendid piece of work of an outstanding German architect, Charles Frederic Schinkel, who at that time was well-known...
Toxicological hazards are caused by heavy metals, such as cadmium, lead, mercury, copper and zinc. They are emitted together with combustion gases by plants belonging to the fuel and power, metallurgical and chemical industries. That is why those hazards occur mostly in the industralized provinces in which the emission of contaminations is the highest. The writer gives some characteristic data of...
In the second part of the article some practical remarks concerning the maintaining of the proper climate in our flats, especially in the initial period of their utilization are made. What does the proper conditioning depend on? How to dry the walls of a building? When and how to paint, and after that when to decorate rooms with wallpaper? There are also recommendations on how our lodgings should...
Recircultion of water and matter by menas of suitable melioration is the most effective method of protecting surface waters. In the drained areas in which there is no possibility of water recirculation one should contaminations in algae-bacterial ponds as well as in macrophyte and fish ponds.
There is a common conviction concerning the necessity of shaping the ecological ethics which should change man's attitude towards the world of nature. A set of theoretical as well as practical rules, suggestions, standards and indications which are to control the behaviour of a human being in environment ought to be defined. The times in which we live are characterized by many paradoxes and tragedies...
In the article the results of investigation on the penetration into the drain-pipe waters of these components of mineral fertilizers which have not been absorbed by plants are presented. Intensive fertilization of arable lands may lead to displacement of nitrates to surface waters thus causing eutrophication of water reservoirs.
The authors of the article present an attempt to evaluate the amount of substances which are introduced from the atmosphere into subsoil. The water soluble substances, e.g. sulfate sulfur, nitrate nitrogen and ammonia nitrogen, chlorides, heavy metals (Pb, Cd, Cu and Zn) as well as acid rains are considered.
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