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Southern Africa Climate Over the Recent Decades: Description, Variability and Trends
South of 15°S, southern Africa has a subtropical climate, which is affected by temperate and tropical weather systems and comes under the influence...
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Physiological, biochemical, and molecular responses of rice (Oryza sativa L.) towards elevated ozone tolerance
Rice ( Oryza sativa L.) is one of the most important staple food crops that is cultivated in South East Asia. This crop is affected by a wide range of...
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Volatile Organic Compounds Impacts on Environment: Biofiltration as an Effective Control Method
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) can be toxic for human beings. At the present scenario, air pollution, which has been generated by various types of...
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Climate Change Resilient Crops to Combat Food and Nutrition Insecurity in Marginal Lands
Food security and environmental conservation are crucial worldwide issues, especially given climate change’s uncertainty. The food system still deals...
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Introduction to Greenhouse Gases: Sources, Sinks and Mitigation
Greenhouse gases (GHGs) is considered as one of the biggest reasons behind climate change in Anthropocene. The GHGs (carbon dioxide (CO2), methane...
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Role of Biomass Burning in Greenhouse Gases Emission
To meet electricity production and transportation, cooking, agricultural-field clearance for crop-rotation, we are consuming fossil fuels through...
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Ozone pollution threatens bird populations to collapse: an imminent ecological threat?
While bird populations are declining, the factors associated with this decline are unclear. Based on laboratory experiments, air pollution has long...
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Atmospheric Influences, Global Warming, and Climate Change
Some of the most subtle but significant impacts of human activities on modern global change processes have occurred as emissions of airborne...
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Examination of the Population Density Impact on Major Air Pollutants: A Study in the Case of Germany
Background: Today, there is a profound shift in the study of atmospheric pollutants at an urban scale especially due to their negative effects on...
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Weather Forecasting
Weather forecasting is the scientific application that helps to predict the atmospheric conditions for a specific time and location. Weather...
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Phytoremediation of Atmospheric Pollutants in the Era of Climate Change
It is now widely recognized that natural vegetation and many economically important crop species are significantly harmed by a variety of compounds...
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Estimating peanut and soybean photosynthetic traits using leaf spectral reflectance and advance regression models
Main conclusionBy combining hyperspectral signatures of peanut and soybean, we predicted V cmax and J max with 70 and 50% accuracy. The PLS was the...
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Use of Biostimulants to Improve Ozone Tolerance in Cereals
Ozone (O3) formed in the troposphere, one of the major threats to plant health, critically affects the various phases of the physiological processes...
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Air Pollution Modeling
Since over the mid of the last century, anthropogenic emissions of trace gases and aerosols are increasing because of the competitive rapid economic...
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Environmental Degradation in the Niger Delta Ecosystem: The Role of Anthropogenic Pollution
Pollution is the addition of unpleasant substances into the environment that damage health. The Niger Delta is the hotbed of oil and gas exploration...
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Optical observations of thunderstorms from the International Space Station: recent results and perspectives
The International Space Station (ISS) is in the lowest available orbit at ~400 km altitude, bringing instruments as close to the atmosphere as...
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Study of the Spectral Characteristics of the Plant Cell Surface: Occurrence of Azulenes and Biogenic Amines
AbstractThe spectral characteristics of plant surface cells of different evolutionary levels, from unicellular (diatom algae and spores of horsetails...
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The Presence of Azulene on the Surface of Plant Cells as a Test for Ozone Sensitivity
Abstract —The reactions to ozone of the surface cells of leaves and needles of five introduced wood species of Sochi National Park in chronic 3-day...
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Role of space station instruments for improving tropical carbon flux estimates using atmospheric data
The tropics is the nexus for many of the remaining gaps in our knowledge of environmental science, including the carbon cycle and atmospheric...
