Introduction: Mercury is a toxic compound. Biological accumulation of mercury especially in aquatic organisms has brought about many health problems. Various methods have been used to remove heavy metals from industrial wastewater. Adsorption is one of the chemical and physical techniques. This method is useful due to high efficiency, easy usage and availability of its different types. This stu...

The Arghavan Valley of Binalood county located at Khorasan Razavi province, is a habitat for valuable and almost rare plant community in eastern Iran which dominated by Cercis griffithii Boiss. shrubs. This habitat is very important for environmental aspects and combat desertification. It’s documented where arid and semi-arid shrublands destroyed, it is very difficult to restore. The Arghavan v...

Following the creation of economic, social and environmental issues in metropolises, strategies aimed to build new cities to decentralize, attract the overflow of crowed population and reduce its activity, in order to enhance the quality of life and to organize the population and activity in urban areas. In the present study, the role of spatial planning for new towns in the metropolitan suburb...

the mesozoic mashhad granitoid plutons have intruded into ophiolite complexes, meta-sediments and pyroclastics in the binalood region, located sw of mashad city in the ne part of iran. based on petrography and geochemistry, the mashhad granitoids have been classified into 1) grey granite, 2) pink granite, 3) muscovite granite, 4) granodiorite and 5) pegmatite and quartz veins. granitoids show t...

Extended abstract Introduction Dust storms are natural hazards that effect on weather conditions, human health and ecosystem. Atmospheric processes are directly affected by the absorption and diffusion of radiation by dust, and dust in the cloud acts as a nucleus of congestion. The main dust areas in the world are flat topographically dry areas with erosion-sensitive soil and poor vege...