Buyers of bottled water, mistakenly believing it “greener” and safer than the tap variety, have had a terrible shock recently. Suddenly, the packaging and long-distance transportation of mineral water in plastic or glass has been recognised as environmentally barmy. Journalists reporting the volte-face have also been pointing out that the product is nothing like as pristine as its purveyors cla...

Over the past 5 years, parts of Oklahoma have experienced marked increases in the number of small- to moderate-sized earthquakes. In three study areas that encompass the vast majority of the recent seismicity, we show that the increases in seismicity follow 5- to 10-fold increases in the rates of saltwater disposal. Adjacent areas where there has been relatively little saltwater disposal have h...

this study was conducted to assess the concentration of some heavy metals and to examine their contamination hazard in atmospheric dust of urban, industrial and non-urban areas in bushehr province, southwestern iran. fifty dust samples from the leaves of the palm trees and fifty surface soil samples from bushehr and assaluyeh cities as urban and industrial areas, respectively, and also from the...

survey on zooplankton composition was studied during june 2015 to march 2016, by selecting six stations along the coastal waters of bushehr (the northwest persian gulf). twenty four zooplankton taxa were identified, and the different zooplankton groups represented twenty-one families. copepoda was recorded with the most abundance (53.30 %) followed by malacostraca (32.87 %), which in turn was f...

Objective: To investigate the influence of lithium mineral waters and lithium salts upon the differentiation