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Urban Sustainability and SDGs Implementation Between Regional Strategy and Local Practice: Case of Sardinia
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a global agenda toward 2030 that need to be implemented at the local level to become effective.... -
SDG-2 Zero Hunger
People’s lives, communities and civilisations have all been defined by constant danger. Hunger is the menace, a plague that causes weakness, despair... -
A review on design, operation, and maintenance of constructed wetlands for removal of nutrients and emerging contaminants
Constructed wetland (CW) systems have proven to be one of the panaceas to the water crisis that can contribute to environmental protection and human...
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Fumigant toxicity and behavioral inhibition of garlic against red imported fire ants (Solenopsis invicta)
In order to control the Solenopsis invicta ( S. invicta ) in a safe and ecofriendly manner, this study evaluated the fumigating activity of garlic and...
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Nanotechnology: Ethical Impacts, Health Issues, and Safety Issues
With the advent of nanotechnology, the prospects for using engineered nanoparticles with diameters lesser than 100 nm have progressed rapidly. The... -
Removal of mercury from water by phytoremediation process with Salvinia natans(L.) All.
Mercury contamination from human activities is a severe environmental problem. The low cost of rhizofiltration of heavy metal-contaminated...
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Analyses of fin ray types to detect strontium markers in juvenile blunt-snout bream Megalobrama amblycephala
BackgroundRestocking by introducing hatchery-reared fish into wild habitats aids in the restoration of fishery aquatic ecosystems and reefs to...
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Soil Biological Processes in Urban Soils
Globally soils harbour a significant diversity and abundance of organisms, ranging in size from nanometre- and micrometre-sized bacteria and archaea,... -
Biogas production potential of aquatic weeds as the next-generation feedstock for bioenergy production: a review
Aquatic weeds have exceptionally high reproduction rates, are rich in cellulose and hemicellulose, and contain a negligible amount of lignin, making...
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Advancements in a Zebrafish Model for Toxicity Assessment of Nanomaterials
The rise of nanotechnology has led to concerns about its potential risks to the environment and human health. Nanotoxicology, the study on the... -
Global Scenario of Plastic Production, Consumption, and Waste Generation and Their Impacts on Environment and Human Health
This review employs country-level statistics pertaining to trash management. The contemporary global landscape is currently grappling with the... -
Recognition of ethylene plasma image based on dual residual with attention mechanism network
Ethylene discharge can be used for particle formation in complex plasma, industrial plasma process, environmental protection, and agricultural...
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Assessment of a prototype of gravitational water vortex turbine: experimental validation of efficiency
The present work focuses on the evaluation, by best efficient point (BEP), Nash–Sutcliffe efficiency (NSE), mean square relative error (MSRE),...
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Mechanical weeding enhances ecosystem multifunctionality and profit in industrial oil palm
Oil palm is the most productive oil crop, but its high productivity is associated with conventional management (that is, high fertilization rates and...
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Climatic drought impacts on key ecosystem services of a low mountain region in Germany
The frequency of extreme weather events has increased in the latest years in Europe. The recent consecutive droughts caused severe damage in many...
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Comprehensive insight into the occurrence characteristics, influencing factors and risk assessments of antibiotics in the Chaohu Basin
The pollution of antibiotics in aquatic environments has received extensive attention. Yet, research on antibiotic contamination in river-lake...
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Records of Press Conference of State Council Information Office
The State Council Information Office (hereafter SCIO) held a press conference at 10:00 a.m. on June 10th, 2020. At the press conference, Zhao... -
What evidence exists on the ecological and physical effects of built structures in shallow, tropical coral reefs? A systematic map protocol
BackgroundShallow, tropical coral reefs face compounding threats from habitat degradation due to coastal development and pollution, impacts from...
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Environment friendly emerging techniques for the treatment of waste biomass: a focus on microwave and ultrasonication processes
In the recent past, an increasing interest is mostly observed in using microwave and ultrasonic irradiation to aid the biological conversion of waste...