The urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon is a significant worldwide problem caused by rapid population growth and associated urbanization. The UHI effect exacerbates heat waves during the summer, increases energy and water consumption, and causes the high risk of heat-related morbidity and mortality. UHI mitigation efforts have increasingly relied on wisely designing the urban residential environ...

Intensive agriculture increasingly depends on chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Considerable amounts of these substances persist in the soil and, then, they reach surface water bodies, favouring eutrophication phenomenon or adversely affecting aquatic life. The existence and evolution of aquatic organisms decisively depend on the environment they live in water. This paper presents the result...

BACKGROUND Coat coloration in mammals is an explicit adaptation through natural selection. Camouflaging with the environment is the foremost evolutionary drive in explaining overall coloration. Decades of enquiries on this topic have been limited to repetitive coat color measurements to correlate the morphs with background/habitat blending. This led to an overwhelming endorsement of concealing ...

Land evaluation procedure given by FAO for soil site suitability for various land utilization types for rainfed agriculture has been used to assess the land suitability for khasi mandarin orange and pineapple in East Khasi Hills District of Meghalaya. The database on soil and land use/land cover was generated from IRS-P6 remote sensing satellite data, soil survey and laboratory analysis of soil...

nonstop growth of urban population and concentration of industrial and agricultural activities in many parts of the world and iran have given rise to increased demand for water for different uses .furthermore, as one important factor of lack of exchange between human and environment resulting in wide exploitation from agricultural lands, mine extraction, and application of various industrial to...