The organic pollutants released from the milk processing units in dairy industries are considered a major source of environmental pollution which creates havoc in the human flora of the world. The dairy wastewater is rich in organic nutrients, fats and oils which becomes an appropriate medium for the growth of several microorganisms. So the direct discharge of dairy wastewater on the agricultur...

Iceland and Trinidad and Tobago are small open, high-income island economies with very specific resource-use patterns. This article presents a material flow analysis (MFA) for the two countries covering a time period of nearly five decades. Both countries have a narrow domestic resource base, their economy being largely based on the exploitation of one or two key resources for export production...

Electronic-nose (e-nose) instruments, derived from numerous types of aroma-sensor technologies, have been developed for a diversity of applications in the broad fields of agriculture and forestry. Recent advances in e-nose technologies within the plant sciences, including improvements in gas-sensor designs, innovations in data analysis and pattern-recognition algorithms, and progress in materi...