drought and salinity are the most important environmental stresses that are causing adverse effects on natural ecosystems. there are species among iranian natural germplasm that are resistant to environmental harsh conditions. restoring of degraded ecosystems, promoting of biodiversity and increasing of species richness will provide by identifying of these species. almond species with broad eco...

allelopathy is the main factor of weed interference on growth and development of crops. in order to study of allopathic effect of hoery cress organs extrate on germination and seedling growth of triticale, two separate factorial experiment based on randomized complete block design with four replication were conducted under laboratory and green house conditions. treatment were included of extrac...

A new in-house ambient pressure XPS (AP-XPS) was designed for the study of surfaces of materials under reaction conditions and during catalysis. Unique features of this in-house AP-XPS are the use of monochromated Al Kα and integration of a minimized reaction cell, and working conditions of up to 500 °C in gases of tens of Torr. Generation of oxygen vacancies on ceria and filling them with oxyg...

Cement manufacturing industry is one of the carbon dioxide emitting sources besides deforestation and burning of fossil fuels. The global warming is caused by the emission of green house gases, such as CO2, to the atmosphere. Among the greenhouse gases,CO2 contributes about 65% of global warming. The global cement industry contributes about 7% of greenhouse gas emission to the earth’s atmospher...

To date, almost all of the research on green/sustainable energy has been concerned with procurement of ever increasing amounts of energy for human consumption. This singular focus only on the supply-side of the problem completely overlooks what happens to the energy after we use it; thereby implicitly making the dangerously wrong assumption that the earth has unlimited capacity to dissipate ene...

Climate change as the greatest environmental challenge facing the world today. Power stations play a major role in greenhouse gas emissions. Nearly 21.3% of green house gases are emitted by power plants alone. The main sources of greenhouse gases are due to burning of fossil fuels and deforestation leading to higher carbon dioxide concentrations. Normally CO2 in the atmosphere is removed by mix...

The disposal of associated gases through flaring has been a major problem for the Nigerian oil and gas industries and most of theses gases are flared due to the lack of commercial out lets. The resultant effects of gas flaring are the damaging effect of the environment due to acid rain formation, green house effect, global warming and ozone depletion. This writes up is aimed at evaluating groun...

Recent studies of ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica have proven that both temperature and CO2 content of the earth’s atmosphere followed a regular 100,000 year cycle of change and that they are closely correlated. Moreover, the observed increase of CO2 in the atmosphere exceeds the predicted values extrapolated from historical data. Other than industrialization and rapid urbanization, geo...