The presence of atmosphere can appreciably warm a planet's surface above the temperature of an airless environment. Known as a natural Greenhouse Effect (GE), this near-surface Atmospheric Thermal Enhancement (ATE) as named herein is presently entirely attributed to the absorption of up-welling long-wave radiation by greenhouse gases. Often quoted as 33 K for Earth, GE is estimated as a differe...

The World Health Organization (WHO), in a public health perspective, defined contaminated sites as “Areas hosting or having hosted human activities which have produced or might produce environmental contamination of soil, surface or groundwater, air, food-chain, resulting or being able to result in human health impacts” (1). Asbestos has been largely used as a raw material in various industrial...

the efficiency of diazinon (as insecticides) and nitrate (related to nitrogen fertilizer) removal from contaminated water is investigated through nf membrane technique. the effects of nitrate concentration (40-160 mg/l), diazinon concentration (10-1000 µg/l) and ph (5-9) on the efficiency of a commercial polyamide nanofilter membrane at a constant pressure of (800 kpa) are investigated. the res...

Under the European Union (EU) Thematic Strategy for Soil Protection, the European Commission has identified soil contamination as a priority for the collection of policy-relevant soil data at European scale. In order to support EU soil management policies, soil-related indicators need to be developed which requires appropriate data collection and establishment of harmonized datasets for the EU ...

Environmental pollution in India has increased from uncontrolled emission of chemical pollutants from the Industries, automobiles and non-point sources where modern agricultural practices are used. These chemicals have contaminated the air, water, soil and their residues have been detected in drinking water, food and consumer products. Some of these are very persistent in the environment and ha...

The small scale industries located at Mira Road, Mumbai, are engaged in various processes/operations which generate the wastes. The waste generated are collected and disposed of at the dumping ground near the industrial estate. In the present study, the physico-chemical and microbial status of the contaminated sites has been carried out. The heavy metal with special reference to copper was expo...

abstract heavy metals are the most important components of environment pollution. soil contaminated by industrial and mining activities of these elements into the soil-plant-human cycle and accumulate in the human or animal body tissue to reach the levels of toxic for animals and humans. for this purpose, a broad sampling of soil, plant and sheep liver were taken and the amount of pb were teste...