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Multidrug-resistant and potentially pathogenic Enterobacteriaceae found in a tertiary hospital sewage in southeastern Brazil
Hospital sewage is considered an environment with the potential to favor the spread and increase of multidrug-resistant bacteria (MDR). The increase...
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Conversion of Agriculture Residues for Bioenergy Production
The production of food for the ever-growing population and raw materials for industries has led to the escalation of agricultural activities and the...
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Land use intensification causes the spatial contraction of woody-plant based ecosystem services in southwestern Ethiopia
Integrating biodiversity conservation and food production is vital, particularly in the tropics where many landscapes are highly biodiverse, and...
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Soil carbon storage capacity of drylands under altered fire regimes
The determinants of fire-driven changes in soil organic carbon (SOC) across broad environmental gradients remains unclear, especially in global...
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Little evidence of management change in California’s forest offset program
Carbon offsets are widely promoted as a strategy to lower the cost of emission reductions, but recent findings suggest that offsets may not causally...
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Nonaqueous Phase Liquid Pool Dissolution in Subsurface Formations
The objective of this chapter is to present some recent developments on nonaqueous phase liquid (NAPL) pool dissolution in water saturated subsurface...
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Climate change reshuffles northern species within their niches
Climate change is a pervasive threat to biodiversity. While range shifts are a known consequence of climate warming contributing to regional...
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Robust decrease in El Niño/Southern Oscillation amplitude under long-term warming
El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the primary mode of interannual climate variability, and understanding its response to climate change is...
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A clustering-based approach for prioritizing health, safety and environment risks integrating fuzzy C-means and hybrid decision-making methods
The working world is undergoing profound changes, and occupational accidents are always a global concern due to substantial impacts on productivity...
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Warming drives ecological community changes linked to host-associated microbiome dysbiosis
Anthropogenic climate warming affects many biological systems, ranging in scale from microbiomes to biomes. In many animals, warming-related fitness...
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Impact of gas impurities on the Hg0 oxidation on high iron and calcium coal ash for chemical loo** combustion
Coal-based mercury pollution from power plants has received increasing attention. In a previous study, high iron and calcium coal ash (HICCA) was...
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Molecular dissection of novel anthocyanin transcripts HsCHS and HsF3H from the calyx tissue of Hibiscus sabdariffa L.
Flavonoids are polyphenolic compounds commonly found in vegetables as well as fruits and contribute significantly in the human diet. The calyx of...
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Revisiting trade and environment nexus in South Africa: fresh evidence from new measure
The paper revisits the dynamic effect of trade openness on environmental quality in South Africa by employing a fresh proxy of trade openness...
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Geochemical background of potentially toxic trace elements in reclaimed soils of the abandoned pyrite–uranium mine (south-central Poland)
Spatial distribution patterns of As, Ba, Cd, Cr, Cu, Mn, Ni, Pb, U and Zn were determined in topsoil samples collected after 40 years of chemical...
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Assessment of bacterial diversity associated with crude oil-contaminated soil samples from Assam
In this study, we are reporting bacterial diversity in crude oil-contaminated soil of Assam, India. Integration of physiological community...
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Prioritization methodology of dangerous substances for water quality monitoring with scarce data
Monitoring and control of dangerous substances discharged into receiving waters have attracted more attention lately. Since it is not possible to...
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A decision support tool for communicating the environmental performance of products and organisations from the ceramic sector
This paper presents a tool designed to facilitate the communication of environmental information in the ceramic sector, both for companies and...
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Air pollution events from forest fires and emergency department attendances in Sydney, Australia 1996–2007: a case-crossover analysis
BackgroundSevere air pollution generated by forest fires is becoming an increasingly frequent public health management problem. We measured the...
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Case Study on Printed Matter in Denmark
The implementation of the EU REACH regulation will most probably promote substitution within sectors handling a lot of different chemicals such as...
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Using Nitrogen Isotopic Approach to Identify Nitrate Sources in Waters of Tian**, China
To understand the nitrogen sources and fate in the surface water of Tian**, the concentrations of nitrogen and δ 15 N-NO 3 − were analyzed in different...
