Environmental management is becoming increasingly dependent on quantitative analysis of environmental and health risks associated with exposure to chemical contaminants. Exposure to chemical pollutants can occur via primary pathways (e.g., inhalation of polluted air or drinking contaminated water) and/or secondary pathways (e.g., ingestion of contaminated food) and therefore requires informatio...

Soil respiration, resulting in decomposition of soil organic carbon (SOC), emits CO2 to the atmosphere and increases under climate warming. However, the impact of heavy metal pollution on soil respiration in croplands is not well understood. Here we show significantly increased soil respiration and efflux of both CO2 and CH4 with a concomitant reduction in SOC storage from a metal polluted rice...

In the North of Tunisia, Hammam Zriba region represents an important mine activity zone, it is among the most important in the Maghreb . The mine tailings cause the environment degradation, so it had polluted the atmosphere, the soils, the vegetation, the water quality and the ecosystem of the Hammam ouady (Dry River) which is discharged directly in the Miliane River. The Miliane River represen...

1 www.ijeas.org  Abstract— Soil contamination from industrial effluents and mining activities is a widespread concern all over the world. Generally soil act as the buffer zone between atmosphere and underground water, thus soil contamination creates a serious threat to soil and to the surrounding biosphere. This research program is aimed to make an in-depth investigation about the remediation ...

Globally, we are applying excessive nitrogen (N) fertilizers to our agricultural crops, which ultimately causes nitrogen pollution to our ecosphere. The atmosphere is polluted by N₂O and NO(x) gases that directly and indirectly increase atmospheric warming and climate change. Nitrogen is also leached from agricultural lands as the water-soluble form NO₃⁻, which increases nutrient overload in ri...

In this paper, a nonlinear dynamical model is proposed and analyzed to study the survival of biological species in a polluted environment considering the effect of environmental tax which can be used further to improve environmental quality. The environmental tax is imposed to control the emission of pollutants/toxicants only when the equilibrium concentration of pollutants go beyond its thresh...

The accuracy and efficiency of the sectional multicomponent aerosol model SEMA, described in the first part of this paper, are tested. Comparisons of results of an equilibrium version of SEMA with results of the equilibrium models SEQUILIB and AIM show good agreement for relative humidities above 60% and thus validate the thermodynamic portion of the model. Tests of the dynamic portion of SEMA ...

The rising fertilizer use accompanying more people eating more has been called exponential (1) and prompted fears of polluted water and consequent methemoglobinemia (2) and hypoxia (3). It also has raised alarm about greenhouse warming (4) and an altered global N cycle and thus primary production (5) and diversity (1) of vegetation. In this plethora of issues we concentrate on a few, beginning ...

One of the aims of regional Environmental Authorities is to provide to the citizens information about the quality of the atmosphere over a certain region. To reach this objective Environmental Authorities need suitable tools to interpolate the data coming from monitoring networks to domain locations where no measures are available. In this work a spatial interpolation system has been developed ...

The seasonal and spatial variations of vertical distribution and optical properties of aerosols over China are studied using long-term satellite observations from the Cloud–Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) and ground-based lidar observations and Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) data. The CALIOP products are validated using the ground-based lidar measurements at the Semi-Arid...