Soil nitrogen (N) is essential for plant growth, but in excess it can lead to environmental pollution via leaching and greenhouse gas emissions. A good understanding of soil N dynamics is therefore crucial for improving farm management. Field studies typically measure only some parts of the N cycle as temporal snapshots. Large uncertainties are involved when these observations are scaled up to ...

Traffic is one of the main sources of air pollution in metropolitan areas. With development of transportation system, inappropriate vehicle production, and the use of low-quality fuels, increased pollution in these areas is inevitable. The current study tries to determine PM2.5, PM10, NO2, and CO emission dispersion, caused by traffic, using CALINE4 software. Ac...

OBJECTIVES Growing concern over the costs, environmental impact and safety of tobacco product litter (TPL) has prompted states and cities to undertake a variety of policy initiatives, of which litter abatement fees are part. The present work describes a framework and methodology for calculating TPL costs and abatement fees. METHODS Abatement is associated with four categories of costs: (1) me...

The paper considers environmental and health assessment of the soil cover quality in Bratsk, Irkutsk Region. purpose research: pollution impact on public when exposed to chemicals formed during aluminium production. method analyzing total fluoride content (in mg/kg soil) horizons 0-5 cm 5-10 is used; a volume oral, inhaled, cutaneous intake this substance from assessed. Based risk multi-mediate...

conclusions it can be concluded that residential-road land uses show the considerable pollution index and ecological risk. materials and methods soil samples were collected from a depth of 0-20 cm at 16 stations with different users. the samples were passed through a 2-mm sieve after air drying. to determine the concentration of heavy metals, the samples were extracted by acid chloride and nitr...

introduction[1] air pollution is one of the major environmental issues in industrial cities such as tehran, in such a way that in a certain time, this city was announced as the second polluted city in the world after new delhi. geographical location of this city produces a situation that air pollution does not find a way for dilution. therefore air pollution and its reduction to an acceptable l...

Protecting water resources from nitrate-nitrogen (NO3-N) contamination is an important public health concern and a major national environmental issue in China. Loss of NO3-N in soils due to leaching is not only one of the most important problems in agriculture farming, but is also the main factor causing nitrogen pollution in aquatic environments. Three typical intensive agriculture farmlands i...

Environmental pollution consists of different types of pollutants in air, soil, and water. Due to the fact that plants can respond to environmental pollution, they can be used as bio-indicators for environmental monitoring. Air pollution in areas with oil and gas refineries nearby is an important problem. This study aims to survey the effects of gas refinery air pollutants on Conocarpus erectus...