Open-cast coal mining presents a big global issue because of the large areas mines occupy, which get entirely changed. Their ecosystems lose most their functions, and huge amount fertile soil gets utterly destroyed. Reclamation is process returning functions after excavation finished, commonly achieved by establishing vegetation, can sometimes be very difficult. This happens due to physical, ch...

Cele Oasis on the southern edge of Tarim Basin was used to investigate the impact of human activity on the soil environment of the oasis–desert ecotone during the oasis expansion process. Since farmland is extending into the oasis–desert ecotone during oasis expansion, reclaimed farmland and control plots within the ecotone were investigated. The variations in soil moisture, soil nutrients and ...

Water, soil, vegetation, grasshoppers, bird eggs, and bird livers collected at a 23.5-ha (58 acres) grassland irrigated with wastewater from an in situ uranium mine (study area) and a reference site in 1998 were analyzed for selenium and other trace elements. Selenium concentrations in the uranium mine wastewater applied onto the grassland ranged from 340 to 450 microg/L. Selenium in the upper ...

The reclaimed utilization of urban wastewater is an indispensable way for solving the crisis of urban water resource. In order to meet the needs of reclaimed water pollution control,the risk assessment model for reclaimed water utilization in basin are established. GIS was employed to derive all the data and evaluate model in order to get spatial variance and distribution of the risk levels on ...

The impact of tree litter on soil chemistry leachate and sulfurous substrates of mine soils from former Jeziórko sulfur mine was investigated. Composites were used: soil substrate (less contaminated at mean 5090 mg kg-1 S or high contaminated at 42,500 mg kg-1 S) + birch or pine litter and control substrate (no litter). The composites were rinsed with distilled water over 12 weeks. In the obtai...