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Drone-Based Aerial GIS Flood Vulnerability Mapping: A Case Study of the 2023 Chennai Floods in Pallikaranai, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

by Vivekanandan Senthil Kumar Kadarkaraipandian

Hydrology and Water Resources Management

Floods are among the most catastrophic natural disasters because they endanger both lives and assets. The current investigation intends to create a mesoscale state wide flood risk mapping for the district of Chennai in Tamil Nadu, India, utilizing drone data and a GIS-MCDA model. The Chennai...

Chennai Floods 2023 Drone technology +3 more

Green Transition and Climate Adaptation: Empirical Evidence of Corporate Resilience in the Low-Carbon Economy

by Hou Zhiwen Liu Jingrui Pang Jiayi

Issue 6

Climate change

As global climate change and management challenges grow, the low-carbon transition has become crucial for the sustainable development of enterprises. This study investigates the economic impact of corporate low-carbon behavior on operational performance using panel data from 2008 to 2022 for...

Green and Low-Carbon Emission Green transformation +2 more

Navigating the Carbon Crossroads: Climate Transition Risk and Carbon Emission Efficiency in China's Energy Enterprises

by Wu Yixi Zhao Kunjian Lei Xue

Issue 5

Climate change

Climate change acceleration and intensifying global carbon reduction efforts have created an urgent need to understand how climate transition risks affect carbon emission efficiency in energy enterprises. Our study breaks new ground by developing climate risk indicators through machine learning and...

Climate transition risk Carbon emission efficiency +3 more

Assessment of Heavy and Trace Metal Pollution in the Karun River, Iran

by Jadari Hooshang Jahani Davood Peyrowan Hamidreza Kohansal Ghadimvand Nader

Issue 5

Water and wastewater treatment and reuse

The Karun River, the longest and highest water flow river in Iran, has experienced heavy and trace metal pollution in recent years. While previous studies have evaluated the water quality of the river, not all sections from north to south have been examined for all metals. To address this gap, a...

Occurrence and drivers of Antibiotics in the rural-urban River Network: A case study of Hongze Lake basin, China

by Xi Shanshan He Rong Jiang Rongsheng Zhang Jiamei Zhang Hua Shuai Zicheng

Issue 5

Water and wastewater treatment and reuse

The massive use of antibiotics and the consequent antibiotic pollution have become a major risk to river ecosystems, water quality, and human health. In this study, 28 antibiotics were analyzed in the rural-urban river water of Suzhou City, the inflow rivers of Hongze Lake. The total concentration...

Antibiotics drivers and sources +1 more

The Maharashtra River Basin's Flood-Drought-Water Scarcity Nexus

by Manisha Shinde Pawar Jagadish Patil Prashant Patil Pratibha Deshmukh Abhijit Patil Ashok Prashant Patil Pandurang Alok Shah Riyajuddin Mujawar

Issue 5

Hydrology and Water Resources Management

India's droughts and floods, which have affected 8 million hectares yearly since the 1950s, make future adaptation and mitigation plans necessary, as well as an awareness of potential changes. In order to address the growing issues of flood and drought events in urban settings, the study emphasizes...

Climate-responsive policies Flood Draught Water Scarcity +3 more

An intelligent air quality monitoring system using quality indicators and Transfer learning based Lightweight recurrent network with skip connection

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Subramanian P et al. View all

Issue 5

Air pollution and health

Rapid industrialization and urbanization have resulted in poor air quality, which poses a risk to human health by causing a variety of lung diseases. The precise forecast of air quality is of practical importance. Consequently, the development of an automated air pollution monitoring system based on...

air quality Deep learning +3 more

Insights into polybrominated diphenyl ethers: occurrence, sources, and exposure health risk in selected solid waste impacted soils

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Onoriode O. Emoyan et al. View all

Issue 4

Solid Waste Management

The Coordinated management of solid waste dumps from different anthropogenic environments is important for pollution management of immediate and adjacent ecosystems. This study took three soil profile samples from three functional zones: the rural, the suburban, and the urban solid waste dumps. The...

PBDEs occurrence soil pollution +3 more

Potential risk assessment of respiratory exposure to heavy metals in the air dust for the metropolitans of Khuzestan Province, Iran

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Khoshnaz Payandeh et al. View all

Issue 2

Air pollution and health

The present study aimed to compare the concentration of 14 metals in the air of 4 cities of Khuzestan province (Ahvaz, Dezful, Mahshahr, and Abadan) in dusty and non-dustynon-dustyy conditions, and determine risk and non-carcinogenic risk in a six-month period from 2017 to 2018 (autumn, winter, and...

Risk assessment Respiration exposure +4 more

Assessment of observed temperature trend patterns of Bhubaneswar city, India with special prominence on future projections using SimCLIM climate model and farmer’s perception

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Punya Murthy Khristodas et al. View all

Issue 2

Climate change

Temperature dynamics is a widely recognized indicator of the global warming phenomenon. Changes in temperature patterns in Bhubaneswar, India, were assessed by examining the monthly minimum and maximum temperature data for 60 years (1956–2015) sourced from the Indian Meteorological Department...

Climate change Multistage Sampling Technique +4 more

Assessment of biomarker-based ecotoxic effects in combating microplastic pollution - A review

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Ozgenc E. et al. View all

Issue 1

Air pollution and health

Microplastics, found in various environments oceans, freshwater systems, soil, and the atmosphere, can enter ecosystems through various pathways, including the degradation of macroplastic parts or direct release from consumer products. By polluting terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems...

Biomarker Ecosystem +4 more

Transport of alumina nanoparticles in natural waters and water saturated porous media- an analysis of the effect of various environmental parameters

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Mrudula Pulimi et al. View all

Issue 1

Air pollution and health

To control the use and disposal of products containing nanoparticles and lessen the risks they pose to soil and aquatic ecosystems, it is essential to understand the fate and transport of Al2O3 NPs. The stability, settling, retention, and transport of Al2O3 NPs in aqueous environments and saturated...

Aluminium oxide nanoparticle transport +2 more

A new method of nowcasting wildfires and impacts: a case study for the USA

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Panayiotis Varotsos et al. View all

Issue 1

Environmental management and policy

In recent years, there has been a steady increase in the intensity and frequency of wildfires worldwide mainly due to the escalating climate crisis and land-use change. Wildfires result in a decline in air quality and cause damage to property, crops, resources, wildlife, and human lives. Since...

Environment fire ecology +2 more

Trace Metals Pollution in Ambient Air of Urban and Rural Coastal Environments

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Haryono Setiyo Huboyo et al. View all

Issue 1

Environmental data analysis and modelling

Air pollution in coastal areas will have a different pattern from mountainous areas due to different wind patterns during the day and night. The city of Semarang, as a representation of urban areas, and Jepara Regency, as a representation of the rural regions, were chosen for this sampling. 24-h...

air pollution coastal +3 more

Spatiotemporal variability of heavy metals concentration in an industrialized estuarine-bay ecosystem in Northern Persian Gulf

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Mahsa HakimiAbed et al. View all

Issue 1

Environmental management and policy

This study aimed to evaluate the pollution level of Ni, Pb, Cd, V, and Hg in the sediments of Musa Estuary and its four main tributaries namely Majidieh, Zangi, Semaili, and Merimos (collectively known as Mahshahr estuaries) in summer and winter 2019 using sediment quality indices. In each tributary...

Mahshahr estuaries spatio-temporal analysis +2 more

Integrated Disaster Risk Management for Flood Detection on Remote Sensing Images using Deep Learning techniques

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Arun Mozhi Selvi Sundarapandi et al. View all

Issue 9

Hydrology and Water Resources Management

Floods are one of the leading causes of damage, prompting mortality and substantial destruction to the structure and total economy of the affected nations. Remote sensing, satellite imagery, global positioning system, and geographic information system (GIS) are widely employed for flood...

Remote Sensing disaster risk management +2 more

Bioethanol (environment support fuel) production and optimization from pineapple peel and banana peel

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Dr.N.Kanthavelkumaran et al. View all

Issue 9

Environmental management and policy

The goal of this investigation was to focus on the viability of synchronous aging of natural product waste with Aspergillus Niger TISTR 3063 co-societies producing ethanol. Additionally noted was how the aging temperature affected the yield of ethanol. Peels from pineapple and banana were used as...

Pineapple peels Banana peels +4 more

Human Health Risk Assessment of Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn through Consumption of Raw goat's Milk in Jijel province (Algeria).

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LEBSIR DALILA et al. View all

Issue 8

Hazardous Substances and Risk Analysis

Contamination of the food chain by toxic metals is one of the main concerns for human health. Milk is part of a balanced diet; essential for proper growth, but can also contains hazardous chemicals and contaminants including heavy metals which can be a risk for health. The aim of this study is to...

Keywords: cancer risk goat’s milk +3 more

Management of flood and separating damage from environmental effects using Bayesian convolutional neural network

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K Muthulakshmi et al. View all

Issue 9

Hydrology and Water Resources Management

Flood management is the act of determining the frequency, magnitude, and duration of flood episodes based on the elements of a river basin that may be monitored. Floods endanger human lives and inflict significant property damage. It is essential for creating suitable flood risk management plans...

Flood management Convolution Neural Network +3 more

A Correlation Analysis and Visualization of Climate Change using Post-Disaster Heterogeneous Datasets

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Sukeerthi Mandyam et al. View all

Issue 7

Climate change

There are numerous geo-climatic and human factors that contribute to the occurrence of natural disasters in the real-world scenario. Besides the study of causes and preconditions of such calamities, post-disaster analysis is essential for the efficient management of the disaster situation. This...

Disasters time-series charts +4 more

Microplastic and associated polyaromatic hydrocarbons in surface waters feeding Beyşehir Lake in Türkiye

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Senar Aydin et al. View all

Issue 7

Air pollution and health

The detection of microplastics, defined as tiny plastics particles having a size from 1 µm to 5 mm, in aquatic environments has become a serious concern worldwide. Microplastics may be introduced either directly to water bodies or indirectly to the aquatic systems. In particular, microplastics may...

microplastics PAHs +1 more

Integrating Circular Economy, SBTI, Digital LCA, and ESG Benchmarks for Sustainable Textile Dyeing: A Critical Review of Industrial Textile Practices

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Muhammad Yousaf Arshad et al. View all

Issue 7

Circular Economy and Bioeconomy

Dyes play a crucial role in various industries, but their environmental impact and potential health risks have raised concerns. This review paper examines the classification and applications of dyes, highlighting the challenges posed by synthetic dyes and the growing interest in natural dyes. The...

Sustainable dyeing Denim industry +10 more

Analysis and Evaluation of Heavy Metal Pollution in Kosasthalaiyar River near Ennore Creek Using Geo Statistical Approach

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Karuppasamy Sudalaimuthu et al. View all

Issue 5

Hydrology and Water Resources Management

The increasing industrialization and urbanization in recent times has led to a significant increase in heavy metal pollution in soil and sediment. The present study aims to evaluate the heavy metal contamination (HmC) in surface sediments collected from the Kosasthalaiyar River located between...

Hm’s Heavy metals +4 more

A STUDY OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF AIR POLLUTION ON HUMAN HEALTH: PM DEPOSITION MODELLING

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rajalakshmi.s.ce@kct.ac.in et al. View all

Issue 6

Air pollution and health

Earth is consisting of land, air and water. Air contains oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, water vapor, other gases are present above the permissible limit, and it creates effects on human health. It is one of the most important public health issues due to development of urbanization...

Urbanization Industrialization +4 more

Removal of Phenol from Olive Mill Wastewater Using Activated Rice Husk

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Wedian F. et al. View all

Issue 5

Water and wastewater treatment and reuse

Olive mill wastewater (OMWW) contains many phenolic compounds that if discharged without proper treatment, may lead to substantial risks to human health and deterioration of the environment and aquatic systems. In this study, an attempt was made to produce activated carbon from Rice Husk (RH). The...

olive mill wastewater Rice husk +3 more