Road dust (RD) is one of the most important sources particles in atmosphere, especially industrial areas and cities. In this special issue, we collected 16 original articles that describe field, experimental, modeling studies related to RD its various size fractions as a key issue understanding relationships between several urban environments identification pollution sources. Articles focus pri...

One of the gaping holes in the public health tool kit is the lack of comprehensive knowledge about the occurrence and toxic effects of the full spectrum of chemicals emitted by industrial facilities. The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) has taken a small step toward filling this void by assembling selected basic toxics data for North America with the 10 June 2009 release of its 12...

The concept of water footprint (WF) is an important breakthrough in the evolving of methodologies, approaches and indicators for measuring freshwater appropriation and assessing the wastewater discharge. Industrial water footprint (IWF) methodology, which concentrates on the industrial production stages, can present a clear graphic of freshwater consumption and impacts caused by wastewater disc...

One of the gaping holes in the public health tool kit is the lack of comprehensive knowledge about the occurrence and toxic effects of the full spectrum of chemicals emitted by industrial facilities. The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) has taken a small step toward filling this void by assembling selected basic toxics data for North America with the 10 June 2009 release of its 12...

Our activities affect the environment and. the environment affects our health. As the number of humans on earth increases, our agricultural and industrial activities have a greater impact on the environment, particularly on the atmosphere. As our most precious resource, the atmosphere has been polluted, so it is imperative to take measures to control air pollution. It becomes necessary to know ...

Problem statement: The purpose of this study was to assess the severity of asthma and associated risk factors among asthmatic primary school children in the selected urban, industrial and rural areas of Selangor and Kuala Lumpur. Approach: A total of 207 respondents were involved in this study, in which 87 were children from the urban areas, 67 children were from the industrial areas and anothe...

Mezquital Valley (MV), a Mexican wastewaterbased agricultural and industrial region, is a “hot spot” of regulated air pollutants emissions, but the concurrent unregulated ones, like hazardous metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), remain undocumented. A biomonitoring survey with the epiphytic Tillandsia recurvata was conducted there to detect spatial patterns and potential sources o...

The height of mechanical mixing layer is one of the parameter of the safety analysis report of any industrial (nuclear) facility due to its relation to the dispersion factor of pollutants. It can provide information about lower atmospheric dispersion, which is usually used to study the pollutants released from nuclear facility, risk analysis and emergency planning. Mixing layer height is diffic...