Background. The importance of physical activity (PA) for maintaining and improving health status increases with each passing day. Objectives. The present study aimed to examine the effects of PA and nutritional education programs applied to 12th-grade students on body mass index (BMI), PA level, and eating habits during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods. One hundred fifty-nine 12th grade student...

Decentralizing natural resource management to local people, especially in tropical countries, has become a trend. We review recent evidence for the impacts of decentralization on the biodiversity values of forests and forested landscapes, which encompass most of the biodiversity of the tropics. Few studies document the impact of decentralized management on biodiversity. We conclude that there m...

Under the context of reserve depletion, recovering rare earth elements (REEs) from secondary resources is essential which assists to strengthen circular economy. Contaminated biomass growing brownfield lands a potential material for REE recovery. However, prior extraction stage, polluted plants need be lessened manageable volume. In this study, contaminated gathered an abandoned mining area was...

Paddy tracts of Nilwala basin has been affected by the implementation Flood Protection and Drainage Project in 1979 due to excessive drainage, nearly 7000 acres land is abandoned. The water table goes down level 50 cm below soil surface during dry periods pH falls 3-4 causing acid sulphate condition. Hitherto several efforts have made ameliorate paddy lands but no any economical solution obtain...

Executive summary: We scrutinized peer-reviewed literature, technical books, and key reports in order to detect any evidence for a differential ability between public and public lands to protect imperiled species in the United States. Limitations in data availability and/or in study scale limited our comparison mostly to certain contrasts of federal public versus mostly private lands. At a nati...

Context: Gold mining is the most destructive activity in natural forests of Madre de Dios region southeastern Peruvian Amazon. Understanding regeneration process these degraded areas necessary to develop forest restoration projects such conditions. Aims: We aimed evaluate recovery and identify successional structure patterns vegetation governing over time. Methods: Structure, composition, richn...