本书是关于介绍“资源与环境科学英语”的教学用书，具体包括了：植物资源、微生物资源和非生物资源，环境方面侧重环境污染及治理方法等方面的内容。

本书适合英语专业本科学生以及从事相关工作的专业人士学习、参考使用。

本书围绕资源与环境两方面内容组织材料，资源方面包括动植物资源、微生物资源和非生物资源，环境方面侧重环境污染及治理方法。全书分为20个单元，每个单元分为A、B两个部分，A部分为精读，B部分为泛读，除第19、20单元外，每部分的词汇量在1100个左右。为便于读者阅读和自我测试，在每部分设有专业词汇表、文章注释和练习题，书后附有练习题的参考答案和总词汇表。

Unit 1

  Part A New Estimates of Oil and Gas Resources in Alaska

  Part B “Black Holes” Aren't Holes at All

Unit 2

  Part A Poplar Trees Help Clean up the Environment

  Part B Trees Could Affect Land Use, Reduce Skin Cancer

Unit 3

  Part A The Impacts of Composting

  Part B Converting Wet Bio-waste into Energy: Alternative to Land Application?

Unit 4

  Part A ACID RAIN:What's the Solution

  Part B Tropical Rivers Exhale Millions of Tons More CO2 than Thought

Unit 5

  Part A Bioremediation-using the Trophic Diversity of Bacteria to Solve Environmental Problems

  Part B Cancer and the Environment

Unit 6

  Part A Obsolete Pesticides Threaten Environment

  Part B Golf is an Environmental Hazard

Unit 7

  Part A Garbage-Potential Resources

  Part B Imagine No Restrictions on Fossil-fuel Usage and No Global Warming!

Unit 8

  Part A Abundant Resources for Making Foods

  Part B Pollution-related Diseases Kill Millions of Children a Year

Unit 9

  Part A What's Wrong with Our Weather 

  Part B New Research Could Spearhead Permanent Nuclear Waste Storage

Unit 10

  Part A The Oceans Man's Last Great Resource

  Part B Everybody's Problem Hazard Waste

Unit 11

  Part A New Technology of Air Pollution Control

  Part B Garbage in, Garbage out

Unit 12

  Part A Water Problems

  Part B Diesel Particles in Air Slow Kids'Lung Development

Unit 13

  Part A Basic Factors in Water Analysis

  Part B Thunderstorms Are Affected by Pollution

Unit 14

  Part A Solid Waste Disposal

  Part B The Time Is Now

Unit 15

  Part A Biological Treatment System

  Part B The Invisible World of Industrial Gas

Unit 16

  Part A Health Effects of Noise

  Part B War Affects the Environment

Unit 17

  Part A Water Purification

  Part B Summary of EIA

Unit 18

  Part A Water Treatment Processes

  Part B Thermal Pollution

Afterclass Readings

 Ⅰ Microbial Ecology

 Ⅱ Fungus

 Ⅲ Is All Environment about Wildlife?

 Ⅳ Biological Control: Bacillus Popilliae

参考译文

Keys to Exercises

词汇表