Global warming is emerging as one of the biggest threats to earth in this century. It not only has deleterious effects on individuals’ health but could also trigger natural disasters such floods, famines, droughts and cyclones etc. Intergovernmental Panel Climate Change reported that industrial revolution mid-19th century caused a 1oC rise global temperature. further estimated by >1.10°C 6.4...

introduction: water shortage in arid and semiarid regions of the world is a cause of serious concerns. the severe water scarcity urges the reuse of treated wastewater effluent and marginal water as a resource for irrigation. mobarake steel complex has been using treated industrial wastewater for drip-irrigation of trees in about 1350 ha of its green space. however, wastewater may contain some a...

33 We studied the effects of phosphorus fertilization on foliar terpene concentrations and 34 on foliar volatile terpene emission rates in different half-sib families of Pinus pinaster 35 Ait. seedlings. Half of them appeared to be resistant to the attack of the pine weevil 36 Hylobius abietis L., a generalist phloem feeder, and the other half appeared to be 37 susceptible to this insect. We hy...

•Recent tropical deforestation increased heat exposure relative to forested areas•Work in deforested areas was associated with disproportionate lost safe work time•Deforestation >0.5 h/day of for 4.9 million people•Additional global climate change will worsen Recent research has highlighted the effects warming on low- and middle-income countries tropics. Additionally, remains an issue concern m...

The question of whether trade helps or hurts the natural environment has led to a decade of dialogue between economists and environmentalists (Williams 2002). Its terms were stated concisely in the pages of Scientific American with economist Jagdish Bhagwati (1993) arguing that trade helps the environment and Herman Daly (1993) that it hurts. Its salience was established on the streets of Seatt...