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Anthropogenic pollutants: a threat to ecosystem sustainability?

Pollutants, including synthetic organic materials and heavy metals, are known to adversely affect physiological systems in all animal species studied to date. While many individual chemicals can perturb normal functions, the combined actions of multiple pollutants are of particular concern because they can exert effects even when each individual chemical is present at concentrations too low to ...

Anthropogenic pollutants – an insidious threat to animal health and productivity?

Humans have always polluted their environment and, to an extent, the associated adverse consequences have increased in parallel with the global population. However, in recent decades, entirely novel compounds have been created, for multiple purposes, and some of these have become ubiquitous, damaging pollutants, which interfere with fundamental physiological processes in all animal species, dis...

(Disturb Day) at Bhopal

In order to study GPS position error, the GPS Ionospheric Scintillation and TEC Monitor (GISTM) based GPS receiver was installed at an equatorial station, Bhopal (23.2 N, 77.4 E, Geomagnetic latitude 14.23 ̊ N), India. We analyzed the horizontal error and the level of confidence in terms of DRMS & CEP and positional error from fixed GPS point for 16 June 2005(disturb day). In order to study the ...

Quantifying the uncertainties of a bottom-up emission inventory of anthropogenic atmospheric pollutants in China

The uncertainties of a national, bottom-up inventory of Chinese emissions of anthropogenic SO2, NOx, and particulate matter (PM) of different size classes and carbonaceous species are comprehensively quantified, for the first time, using Monte Carlo simulation. The inventory is structured by seven dominant sectors: coal-fired electric power, cement, iron and steel, other industry (boiler combus...

Intercontinental transport of anthropogenic sulfur dioxide and other pollutants: An infrared remote sensing case study