Levels of naturally occurring radioactive materials prior to processing of gold ore within and around the new eastern concession area of Perseus Mining (Ghana) Limited were carried out to ascertain the baseli...
Authors: A. Faanu, O. K. Adukpo, L. Tettey-Larbi, H. Lawluvi, D. O. Kpeglo, E. O. Darko, G. Emi-Reynolds, R. A. Awudu, C. Kansaana, P. A. Amoah, A. O. Efa, A. D. Ibrahim, B. Agyeman, R. Kpodzro and L. Agyeman
In 2010, Universitas Indonesia (UI) developed the UI GreenMetric World University Ranking for universities to share information about their sustainability practices. This ranking system was well aligned with ...
Authors: Ronnachai Tiyarattanachai and Nicholas M. Hollmann
The minimum relative entropy (MRE) method has been applied in a wide variety of fields since it was first introduced. Woodbury and Ulrych (Water Resour Res 29(8): 2847–2860, 1993, Water Resour Res 32(9): 2671–268...
Authors: Fausto Cupola, Maria Giovanna Tanda and Andrea Zanini
The practical utilization of available modern as well as traditional weather forecasting systems builds herders’ resiliency capacity to climatic shocks. The precision and reliability of the forecasting system ...
Authors: Desalegn Yayeh Ayal, Solomon Desta, Getachew Gebru, James Kinyangi, John Recha and Maren Radeny
The Larsemann Hills is an ice-free area of approximately 50 km2, located halfway between the Vestfold Hills and the
Amery Ice Shelf on the south-eastern coast of Prydz Bay, Princess Elizabeth Land, East Antarcti...
Authors: Abhishek Chauhan, Pawan K. Bharti, Pankaj Goyal, Ajit Varma and Tanu Jindal
The population density of Kashmir gray langurs (Semnopithecus ajax) was studied in Dachigam National Park (DNP), Kashmir using distance sampling method. A total of 13 transects (1.5–2.5 km in length) were surveye...
Authors: Zaffar Rais Mir, Athar Noor, Bilal Habib and Gopi Govindan Veeraswami
A laboratory study on the bioremediation of diesel contaminated soil with the earthworm Eudrilus eugeniae (Kingberg) was conducted. 5 ml of diesel was contaminated into soils in replicates and inoculated with E. ...
Authors: Ogheneruemu Abraham Ekperusi and Iruobe Felix Aigbodion
In order to assess the ecological effect of acid mine drainage, metal mine (Dalsung) and coal mine (Samtan) drainage in South Korea were collected. The each mine drainage then investigated by whole effluent to...
Authors: Sang-Ho Lee, Injeong Kim, Kyoung-Woong Kim and Byung-Tae Lee
Pollution by metals may adversely affect organisms through the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS). In this study, we examined the sublethal effects of two metals, copper and cadmium, on horseshoe crab (L...
Authors: Mary G. Hamilton, Christopher Esposito, Mia Malin, Lucas R. Cusumano and Mark L. Botton
The use of artificial sweeteners (ASWs) has increased and become more widespread, and consequently ASWs have appeared in aquatic environments around the world. However, their safety to the health of humans and...
We measured chlorophyll (chl) concentration and chl a/b ratio in Sphagnum balticum, S. jensenii, and S. lindbergii, sampled after 7 and 8 years of ultraviolet-B (UVB) and temperature manipulation in an open fiel...
Authors: Anna Hyyryläinen, Pasi Rautio, Minna Turunen and Satu Huttunen
The experimental cage culture was conducted at Shirati bay, Lake Victoria from February to August 2013, to investigate the impacts of the small scale cage culture on the environment. Three locations along the ...
Authors: Benedicto Boniphace Kashindye, P. Nsinda, R. Kayanda, G. W. Ngupula, C. A. Mashafi and C. N. Ezekiel
A visual census
of marine litter on the seafloor of the Saronikos Gulf (Greece) is presented in the current work. The abundance and qualitative composition of benthic marine litter were investigated in two se...
Authors: C. Ioakeimidis, G. Papatheodorou, G. Fermeli, N. Streftaris and E. Papathanassiou
Southeast Texas houses a precipitation transition zone between drier conditions to the North and West and some of the wettest parts of the continental U.S. to the East. The Region has seen an increase in its r...
The method of using Global Positioning System-leveling data to obtain orthometric
heights has been well studied. A simple formulation for the weighted least squares problem has been presented in an earlier wo...
Environmental hazards were shown to have an impact on cell proliferation (CP). We investigated CP of lymphocytes in umbilical cord blood in relation to prenatal environmental exposures in a sample of 346 Arab-...
Authors: Lena Novack, Esther Manor, Elena Gurevich, Maayan Yitshak-Sade, Daniella Landau, Batia Sarov, Reli Hershkovitz, Doron Dukler, Tali Vodonos and Isabella Karakis
This study investigated the phytotoxicity of herbicides applied singly or as mixtures to different crops under greenhouse conditions. Growth inhibition of the crops was taken as an indicator of phytotoxicity. ...
Bien Hoa airbase is a known dioxin-contaminated hotspot in Vietnam. The contamination occurred during the Vietnam War at the site where dioxins were transported, stored, sprayed, and spilled in the area. Dioxi...
Authors: Dang Thuong Huyen, Toshifumi Igarashi and Takuya Shiraiwa
The below-ground CO2 concentration in some crusted soils or flooded fields is usually ten or hundred times larger than the normal levels. Recently, a large number of studies have focused on elevated CO2 in the at...
Anthropogenic atmospheric CO2 reacts with water to form carbonic acid (H2CO3) which increases water acidity. While marine acidification has received recent consideration, less attention has been paid to the effec...
Authors: Hugh Lefcort, David A Cleary, Aaron M Marble, Morgan V Phillips, Timothy J Stoddard, Lara M Tuthill and James R Winslow
Endophytes colonize an ecological niche similar to that of phytopathogens, which make them candidate for disease suppression. Anthracnose is a disease caused by Colletotrichum spp., a phytopathogen that can infec...
Authors: Andréa Cristina Bogas, Almir José Ferreira, Welington Luiz Araújo, Spartaco Astolfi-Filho, Elliot Watanabe Kitajima, Paulo Teixeira Lacava and João Lúcio Azevedo
The influence of soybean genotypes with different maturity groups on the symbiotic effectiveness of Bradyrhizobium spp under high native soil N is not well known. Therefore, the objective of this work was to eval...
We used a new data set of relocated earthquakes recorded by the Seismic Network of Northeastern Sonora, Mexico (RESNES) to characterize the attenuation of S-waves in the fault zone of the 1887 Sonora earthquake (
Authors: Gina P Villalobos-Escobar and Raúl R Castro
Here we investigate the allocation of resources between growth and reproduction by surveying the dynamics of natural populations of the aquatic detritivorous mudsnail Potamopyrgus antipodarum from two interconnec...
Authors: Jaap Dorgelo, Harm G van der Geest and Ellard R Hunting
In October 2011, a snowstorm in the northeastern USA caused many branch failures of many tree species commonly planted in urbanized settings. Immediately following the storm, we assessed 1,764 trees for possib...
Transformation of natural land cover (LC) into modified LC has become inevitable due to growing human needs. Nevertheless, landscape transformational patterns during reclamation of mine damaged lands remain va...
Authors: Effah K Antwi, John Boakye-Danquah, Stephen B Asabere, Kazuhiko Takeuchi and Gerhard Wiegleb
The white-rot fungus Phlebia sp. strain MG-60 was proposed as a candidate for integrated fungal fermentation process (IFFP), which unifies aerobic delignification and semi-aerobic consolidated biological processi...
Hepatitis A is an acute inflammation of the liver caused by the hepatitis A virus (HAV) in human. The path of entry of HAV to the bloodstream is the epithelium of the intestine. Liver inflammation occurs when ...
Authors: Waleed Khan, Muhammad Irshad, Gauhar Rehman and Anwar Hussain
Idol immersion activity is one of the sources of heavy metal pollution in the lakes of India. Futala, Gandhisagar and Ambazari lakes of Nagpur city are highly involved with idol immersion activity.
Authors: Manisha D Giripunje, Abhay B Fulke and Pravin U Meshram
Telescopium telescopium, a marine mollusc collected from Sundarban mangrove, belongs to the largest mollusca phylum in the world and exudes a blue secretion when stimulated mechanically. The blue secretion was fo...
Authors: Bapi Gorain, Sumon Chakraborty, Murari Mohan Pal, Ratul Sarkar, Samir Kumar Samanta, Sanmoy Karmakar and Tuhinadri Sen
The frequent transit of vehicles (recreational or not) through saltpans and saltmarsh fields has been recorded as one of the major causes of physical and ecological damage for these environments. While several...
The region of Beni-Ilmane (District of M’sila, north-central Algeria) was the site of an earthquake sequence that started on 14 May 2010. This sequence, which lasted several months, was triggered by conjugate ...
Authors: Issam Abacha, Ivan Koulakov, Fethi Semmane and Abd Karim Yelles-Chaouche
Several different classifications to characterize estuarine systems have been proposed. In this present paper, one of the most important estuaries in North Africa, the Oued Loukkos (Morocco), forms a case-stud...
Authors: Mohamed Ali Geawhari, Lloyd Huff, Nadia Mhammdi, Athena Trakadas and Abdellah Ammar
In the present study, a marine strain of Trichoderma sp was used for degradation of a synthetic dye, malachite green. Individual and interaction effects of the physical and chemical factors that influenced the pe...
Authors: Kandasamy Saravanakumar and Kandasamy Kathiresan
A perlite sample representative of an operating mine in Milos was investigated with respect to the type and spatial distribution of water. A set of different methods was used which finally provided a consisten...
Authors: Stephan Kaufhold, Anke Reese, Werner Schwiebacher, Reiner Dohrmann, Georg H Grathoff, Laurence N Warr, Matthias Halisch, Cornelia Müller, Ulrich Schwarz-Schampera and Kristian Ufer
This study sets out to verify the key predictors of the dynamics of the arable production per capita index, the arable production and permanent crop land and forest area at a national scale in Cameroon. To ach...
Authors: Epule Terence Epule, Christopher Robin Bryant, Cherine Akkari, Mamadou Adama Sarr and Changhui Peng
This paper presents the results of modeling tests of the Effect of Confinement Pressure on footing bearing capacity of two kinds of square and strip footing. Footings bearing capacity depends upon many factors...
El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is an important driver of interannual variations in climate and ecosystem productivity in tropical regions. However, detailed information about this important phenomenon of ...
Authors: Palanisamy Satheesh Kumar, Gopalakrishna N Pillai and Ushadevi Manjusha
The growing quality and availability of spatial map layers (e.g., climate, geology, and land use) allow stream studies, which historically have occurred over small areas like a single watershed or stream reach...
Authors: Yin-Phan Tsang, Daniel Wieferich, Kuolin Fung, Dana M Infante and Arthur R Cooper
The increasing population in the developing countries has rendered wetlands vulnerable to land use changes. Remote sensing offers a rapid and efficient means of data acquisition of ecosystems in time and space...
Authors: Samson Okongo Mabwoga and Ashwani Kumar Thukral
El Sela shear zone occurs in the younger granite rock of Gabal El Sela area, south Eastern Desert, Egypt near the Sudan Frontier. It comprises lines–arranged intrusions trending ENE-WSW and extend for about 1....
This study documents the complete larval development of the Monkey River Prawn Macrobrachium lar using a new greenwater rearing technique. Approximately 6,000 larvae were reared for 110 days at an initial stockin...
Authors: Monal M. Lal, Johnson Seeto and Timothy D. Pickering
Vamizi, an Island located in the Western Indian Ocean, is visited by a small and not fully characterized green turtle (Chelonia mydas (L.)) population. This population is threatened by natural hazards and several...
Authors: Rita Anastácio, Camila Santos, Cardoso Lopes, Helena Moreira, Luis Souto, Jorge Ferrão, Julie Garnier and Mário J. Pereira
Endosulfan is an organochloride and persistent pesticide that has caused concern because of its impact in the environment and its toxicity to and bioaccumulation in living organisms. In this study, we isolated...
Authors: Mariana Romero-Aguilar, Efrain Tovar-Sánchez, Enrique Sánchez-Salinas, Patricia Mussali-Galante, Juan Carlos Sánchez-Meza, María Luisa Castrejón-Godínez, Edgar Dantán-González, Miguel Ángel Trujillo-Vera and Ma Laura Ortiz-Hernández
Freshwater eels are important animals because they have a unique catadromous life history and are used as food resources. European, American and Japanese eel populations now are considered to be outside the sa...
Degradation of Petroleum-plastics like Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE) is a budding challenge due to increasing white pollution. The present investigation has focused the aspect through microbial assisted biod...
Authors: Mayuri Bhatia, Amandeep Girdhar, Archana Tiwari and Anuraj Nayarisseri
As the cost of mineral fertilisers increases globally, organic soil amendments (OAs) from agricultural sources are increasingly being used as substitutes for nitrogen. However, the impact of OAs on the product...
Authors: Dai H Nguyen, Johannes Biala, Peter R Grace, Clemens Scheer and David W Rowlings
The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (F1NPP) accident released large amounts of radioactive substances into the environment and contaminated the terrestrial and marine ecosystems in East Japan. The unpred...
The results of the ship ballast water treatment systems neutralization need to be verified in a transparent and trustful way before the ship enters a port. Some researches and results, explained in this articl...
