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Geospatial modeling of drought using remote sensing and GIS technique a :(case study of Babylon and surrounding area, Iraq).

by M.Kadhum Zahraa AL-Hameedawi Amjed. Hamoodi Mustafa

Issue 6

Hydrology and Water Resources Management

Among all other natural resources, droughts are progressively affecting our communities because to their gradual and sustained evolution over several years. Droughts impact agriculture and result in catastrophic consequences. The present research sought to model the spatial variability and...

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Upregulate Soil Health and Wheat Yield: Conversion of Organic Waste into Bio-activated Zn-Enriched Compost for Deficient Soils

by Naeem Muhammad Iqbal Zafar Hussain Azhar Jamil Moazzam Ahmad Hafiz Tanvir Ismail Ahmed Mahmoud El-Mogy Mohamed El Ganainy Sherif El-Beltagi Hossam Hadid Maha Loutfi

Solid Waste Management

Soil zinc (Zn) deficiency is a major constraint limiting wheat productivity and nutritional quality, particularly in degraded agricultural lands. Sustainable organic waste management through composting presents an eco-friendly approach to enhancing soil health while mitigating environmental...

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Ammonium nitrate enhances salinity stress tolerance by inducing physiological and phy-tohormonal regulation changes in Vigna radiata L.

by Fu Shilin Iqbal Babar Alahmadi Tahani Awad Ansari Mohammad Javed Jalal Arshad Nazir Muhammad Junaid Li Guanlin Du Daolin

Issue 6

Water and wastewater treatment and reuse

Mungbean is a key leguminous crop species highly regarded for its nutritious properties. However, soil salinity greatly reduced its growth and yield. Our study investigated whether applying exogenous nitrogen (N) (ammonium nitrate; AN) could improve salinity tolerance in mungbean seedlings by...

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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...

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Biomonitoring of soil quality in the Souk Ahras region (Northeast Algeria) using Cornu aspersum as a bioindicator: Trace metals and sulfates analysis

by Bendjebbar Roumaissa Berrouk Houda Barour Choukri Sleimi Noomene Merghad Amina

Air pollution and health

The present study aims to assess the impact of physicochemical parameters on the availability of trace metal elements (TME) in soil by analyzing the accumulation of copper (Cu), zinc (Zn) and sulfates in both soil and edible tissues of Cornu aspersum using a passive biomonitoring approach at three...

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Isolation and characterization of cadmium-resistant bacteria and its potential in promoting tomato growth

by Razzaq Aysha Akhtar Muhammad FakharU Zaman Hussain Azhar Ahmad Maqshoof Ismail Ahmed Mahmoud Alturki Saleh Mbark El-Beltagi HossamS Darrag HossamM

Environmental management and policy

This study primarily focuses on the isolation and characterization of bacterial strains resistant to cadmium (Cd) and evaluates their role in promoting plant growth under varying Cd concentrations (0, 120, and 240 µg mL⁻¹). A total of 45 Cd-resistant bacterial strains were isolated from wastewater...

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N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine as an enhancer of salinity tolerance via modulating physiological and anatomical attributes in faba bean

by Ramadan Khaled Mohamed Hisham Al Hashedi Sallah Ghazzawy Hesham El-Beltagi Hossam El-Mogy Mohamed Mohamed Mohamed Saudy Hani Abdelkhalik Abdelsattar Abd El-Mageed Shimaa Mohamed Ibrahim Abd El-Mageed Taia

Hydrology and Water Resources Management

To meet the increasingly food demands, all environmental resources should be exploited in sustainable manner. Soil, a major component in agricultural for production, is subjected to salinization owing to climate changes. Growing crop plants in saline soil dramatically results in significant yield...

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Unveiling the physio-biochemical, photosynthetic and ionic Responses of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) genotypes exposed to NaCl and chromium stress

by Ali Muhammad Chen Yu Ahmad Salman Aloufi Salman Al-Asmari Fahad İzgü Tolga Şimşek Özhan Alalawy Adel M.AL-Balawi Siham Alasmari Abdulrahman Alaida Meaad

Issue 5

Environmental management and policy

Heavy metal pollution and salinity is a serious ecological concern posing threat to agriculture sustainability and global food security. Chromium (Cr) accumulation in arable lands is of serious concern due to its long term persistent in the soil and strong detrimental impacts on crop yield. Soil...

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Multi-Objective Evaluation of Bioretention Systems Based on Principal Component Analysis-Projection Pursuit Model

by Liu Zhen Fu Yiwei Qiang Weibo Ji Fangfang Cheng Qiming Liao Jingsong Wu Sifei Zhao Bing Hu Sixu Chen Yao

Issue 5

Hydrology and Water Resources Management

Hydraulic infiltration and decontamination performance of bioretention systems are influenced by plant species and planting layers. However, traditional evaluation methods are limited by their high subjectivity and inability to capture complex relationships among multidimensional data accurately...

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Exploration of Composting Strategies for Sustainable Organic Waste Management in Urban Environments

by Sharma Prashant Nagabhooshanam N. Kumar Rakesh Sharma Kuldeep Vani Sana

Issue 6

Solid Waste Management

The management of organic waste in urban environments poses significant challenges due to the high volume of waste generated and limited disposal options. Composting is a promising technique for converting organic waste into valuable compost that can be used to improve soil health and reduce the...

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Differential growth and metal uptake efficiency of castor bean genotypes on a lead contaminated soil

by Naveed Sahar Mahmood Sajid Ishaque Wajid

Issue 5

Soil and groundwater contamination and remediation

Present study investigated the unknown responses of five castor bean genotypes to lead (Pb) contaminated soil, focusing on their growth and metal uptake efficiency. A unique aspect is the simultaneous assessment of multiple genotypes, offering a holistic view of their reactions to soil contamination...

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Non-competitive and competitive sorption of imidacloprid and KNO3 into soils and their effects on the germination of wheat plants (Triticum aestivum L.)

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Fouad Mohamed R. et al. View all

Issue 5

Soil and groundwater contamination and remediation

The non-competitive and competitive adsorption/desorption of agrochemicals into soil plays an important role in the fate and behaviour of contaminants in the environment. Non-competitive and competitive adsorption/desorption experiments of imidacloprid and KNO3 into alluvial soil and sandy soil were...

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The influence of nZVI composites as immobilizing agents on the bioavailability of heavy metals and plant growth in mining metal-contaminated soil

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441106289@student.ksu.edu.sa et al. View all

Issue 4

Circular Economy and Bioeconomy

Under the greenhouse scale, nano zero valent iron (nZVI) have been evaluated evaluated by formulation with carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC-nZVI), chitosan (Ch-nZVI), biochar (BC-nZVI), and smectite (SC-nZVI) at rates of 0 and 0.5 and 1% (w/w). The properties of manufactured compounds and their impact...

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Assessment of Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity with Using Soil Particle Size Distribution: A Comparative Study of Constant Head and Falling Head Methods

by Solangi Kashif Ali Abbasi Bilawal Solangi Farheen Khaskhali Shahneela Siyal Altaf Ali Mehmood Hassan Akram Muhammad Irfan Iqbal Rashid Al-Ghamdi Abdullah Ahmed Elshikh Mohamed S.

Issue 6

Hydrology and Water Resources Management

The purpose of soil hydraulic conductivity is to retain soil water contents, and soil water pressure. In this study investigates two different methods to understand the soil hydraulic conductivity of loam and clay soils. The present research conducted a laboratory experiment to measure the saturated...

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Combining Dissolved Air Flotation (DAF) and Modified Moving Bed Biofilm Reactors (MMBBR) for Synthetic Oily Wastewater Treatment

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sazan mohammed ali et al. View all

Issue 4

Water and wastewater treatment and reuse

Numerous industrial processes, including petroleum refining, food production, car washes, leather manufacturing, and slaughter houses, generate significant volumes of wastewater due to their substantial water consumption during processing. The presence of oily wastewater has detrimental effects on...

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Enhancing sunflower resilience: Zinc-solubilizing bacteria mitigate cadmium uptake and translocation

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Azhar Hussain and Rashid Iqbal et al. View all

Issue 4

Environmental management and policy

Cadmium (Cd) is a highly hazardous metal known for its easy absorption and accumulation in plants, particularly in edible vegetable oils. Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) holds global significance as an oil crop. This study aims to assess the potential of zinc-solubilizing bacterial strains in...

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The effect of oil pollution on community structure of benthic macro ‎invertebrates in the northwest of the Persian Gulf ‎ ‎(Case study: Jafari creek)‎

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Maryam MohammadiRouzbahani et al. View all

Issue 3

Air pollution and health

This study evaluates the contamination levels of heavy metals and petroleum hydrocarbons in Jafari ‎Creek sediments and the effect of these pollutions on Macrobenthos in 2017. Studies to understand ‎the effect of heavy metal Cadmium, Chromium, Nickel, Lead, Selenium, Zinc, Copper, and ‎Vanadium, and...

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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...

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Pine cone ash stabilization of expansive soils

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Abiola Ayopo Abiodun et al. View all

Issue 3

Solid Waste Management

The use of appropriate waste materials to stabilize problematic soils, such as expansive soils that are responsible for geotechnical damage, is a common practice in geotechnical engineering. This study presents the use of pulverized ash from the combustion of pine cone (PC) waste as a stabilizing...

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Optimizing Drought Resilience in Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus) Through Synergistic Actions of Drought-Tolerant Rhizobacterial Strains and Brassinosteroids Hormone Application: A Jar Trial Study

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Azhar Hussain (azharhaseen@gmail.com); Rashid Iqbal (rashid.iqbal@iub.edu.pk) et al. View all

Issue 4

Environmental management and policy

The study addresses the critical issue of water scarcity in agriculture, which causes significant losses by disrupting plant-water connections and increasing oxidative damage to biological components. In this study, we evaluated the synergistic potential of pre-isolated and identified...

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Efficiency of engineered/modified biochars-based adsorbents for removal of pollutants from aquatic environment: A critical review

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Iftikhar Ali et al. View all

Issue 3

Soil and groundwater contamination and remediation

Biochar shows substantial potential to contribute as a globally applicable adsorbent to decontaminate the water system due to the ample availability of feedstocks and valuable physio-chemical surface properties. This review aims to highlight the modification technologies of biochar, the alteration...

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Experimental study of biodegradability of organic waste with industrial waste combined with effluents: a comparison by vermicomposting technology

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Vivek. S et al. View all

Issue 3

Solid Waste Management

Vermicomposting is a mesophilic biooxidation and stabilization process of organic materials that involves the joint action of earthworm and microorganism. An experiment was conducted to prepare vermicompost using partially decomposed organic waste such as MSW, fruit waste, vegetable waste and yard...

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Effectiveness of corn stalk biochar in amending the contaminated soil attributes and enhancing the sustainable grass growth

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Ditta A. et al. View all

Issue 1

Environmental management and policy

It is important to rapidly amend the hostile rural soil fertility and quality to develop green land verdure. In this research, cornstalk-derived biochar was added (sequence proportions 0, 1, 5, 10, 20, and 50 % in the mass ratio) into hostile rural soil and then the grass was grown in the pots. The...

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