Time series studies have suggested that air pollution can negatively impact health. These studies have typically focused on the total mass of fine particulate matter air pollution or the individual chemical constituents that contribute to it, and not source-specific contributions to air pollution. Source-specific contribution estimates are useful from a regulatory standpoint by allowing regulat...

the objective of the study was to investigate pollution sources in the Vilnia river and evaluate the toxicity of sewage, contamination of the Vilnia river water and bottom sediments, using a complex of biological methods. toxicity was assessed by use of various indices of test-organisms: seed germination and root growth in Lepidium sativum l., and mortality and physiological indices in early on...

We propose a water pollution source mapping system based on ubiquitous sensor networks that fish robots search the source of water pollution autonomously. To verify the effectiveness of a water pollution source mapping system, we made a model water pool in which a fish robot pursues infrared measurements of reflection to various colors at the bottom of the pool. The model of water pollution con...

Er-hai Lake lies in state of Dali of Yunnan Province in China, which is so important to the local people that they revere her as the Mother Lake. Unfortunately, she is threatened by the more serious pollution of water. And from the water quality assessment of Er-hai Lake over the years, it is indicated that the major water pollution source come from nonpoint source pollution. The argument is th...

Water quality is a major environmental issue. Pollution from nonpoint sources is the single largest remaining source of water quality impairments in the United States. Agriculture is a major source of several nonpoint-source pollutants, including nutrients, sediment, pesticides, and salts. Agricultural nonpoint pollution reduction policies can be designed to induce producers to change their pro...

Introduction Perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) have been detected from various environmental matrices even in Arctic, and known to be ubiquitous pollutants. Fluorotelomer alcohols (FTOHs) and fluorooctane sulfonamidoethanol (FOSE), which can be degraded to perfluorooctanoate (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), respectively, spread to all over the globe through atmosphere and are consider...

measuring salinity of water at different depths along six transacts at the mouth of the wetland and along five tributaries connecting the wetland to the sea the extent of caspian sea penetration into anzali wetland was determined. the results demonstrated a depth-dependent salinity gradient extending up to 10 kilometres into the wetland. a pattern of saltwater and freshwater interface is presen...

Nature inspired solutions enable biological systems to adapt and accomplish their tasks in very noisy and uncertain environments. Taking inspiration from nature, a novel bacteria controller capable of finding the source of pollution in an underwater medium turbulent environment is presented in this paper. Experiments prove that the controller is capable of performing pollution source exploratio...