Climate change
In today's digital environment, energy is the most essential for human survival. Its combustion surfaces were coated with ceramics to achieve total adiabatic operation, also called a low heat rejection engine (LHR). One of the best techniques to lower NOx emissions in internal combustion engines is...
Climate change
Heat stress is among the most devastating abiotic stresses responsible for the reduction of maize yield. Therefore, the application of zinc nanoparticles (ZnNPs) is considered one of the precise and sustainable practices to meet the nutritional and food security demands of the global population. In...
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 change
This study employs wavelet coherence, wavelet quantile correlation, and Granger causality tests to comprehensively investigate the dynamic correlation characteristics between the U.S.clean energies and the stock returns of seven systematically important banks (SIBs). The main findings are as follows...
Climate change
As global climate change intensifies, with frequent extreme weather events, the stability of vegetation is severely threatened. This study (2002–2023) uses NDVI, temperature, and precipitation data, along with methods like pixel binary, trend analysis, and multiple regression residual analysis, to...
Climate change
Investigating the spatiotemporal heterogeneity of livestock environmental efficiency and its decoupling effect is crucial for fostering the coordinated development of livestock economy and environmental sustainability. This study examines the spatiotemporal distribution, regional gaps, dynamic...
Solid Waste Management
Delegating public solid waste management services to private structures is increasingly favored by some countries in sub-Saharan Africa. However, waste is still landfilled without recycling and/or recovery of any fraction. This study investigated the generation, characteristics and current...
Environmental management and policy
In the context of the current technological revolution and industrial transformation, the digital economy has emerged as a strategic imperative. It is essential to investigate the influence of digital policies on urban carbon emission efficiency and to elucidate the underlying mechanisms. Such...
Environmental management and policy
The carbon abatement effects of digital finance (DF) have been widely studied, but existing studies have neglected its impact on the marginal carbon abatement cost (CMAC). The paper uses the SBM model to measure the CMAC of 264 cities in China for 2011-2021 and then constructs a two-way fixed...
Environmental management and policy
Wetlands are among the most important ecosystems in the world, owing to their ecosystem characteristics. Therefore, they offer rich biodiversity in the areas where they are located. However, despite all legal regulations, wetlands are at risk both globally and in Türkiye. This risk is mainly caused...
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...
Environmental management and policy
Rainfall erosion is a complex environmental problem involving multiple influences, both natural and human. To explore effective strategies to suppress the erosive power of rainfall on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, researchers considered the complexity of regional geographic features. This paper also...
Environmental management and policy
This research aims to enhance the composition of phenolic compounds, the antioxidant and cytotoxic activities of the methanol, ethyl acetate, and n-butanol extracts produced from the leaves of Achillea ligustica, collected in the northeast of Algeria. The measure of extracts' total phenolic and...
Water and wastewater treatment and reuse
The complex composition of persistent and resistant contaminants in oil refinery wastewater presents a significant environmental challenge that conventional treatment methods frequently fail to effectively address. Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs), specifically the photo-Fenton method, and a deep...
Water and wastewater treatment and reuse
This study investigates the effectiveness of a combined precipitation and oxidation leaching process in reducing high concentrations of sulphides in tannery effluent from the unhairing bath. First, at precipitation process the influence of operational parameters, such as stirring speeds, pH levels...
Water and wastewater treatment and reuse
The influence of land-use patterns on water quality in the Huaihe River Basin was analyzed using the Nemerow index, correlation and multiple linear regression analysis based on the measured data from 62 sampling sites in the Huaihe River Basin (China). In the point buffer zone, a significant...
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...
Water and wastewater treatment and reuse
In this work, untreated activated carbon (UDP-AC) and activated carbon chemically treated with H₂SO₄ (TDP-AC) were successfully synthesized from date pits, a solid waste material. Characterization was performed on both UDP-AC and TDP-AC, and both samples were used to adsorb methylene blue (MB) dye...
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...
Circular Economy and Bioeconomy
Biodiesel is thought to be more environmentally benign than fuels derived from petroleum, as well as less expensive and able to provide greener energy, all of which have favorably impacted the bioeconomy. Utilizing heterogeneous activated carbon catalysts to produce eco-friendly biodiesel from dried...
Circular Economy and Bioeconomy
Background: This study aimed to evaluate the impact of various concentrations of nano-silica on the germination process of fenugreek seeds. The agro-waste materials such as rice husk, corn cobs and bagasse were used as a precursor for synthesizing nano-silica. Moreover, their formation was confirmed...
Hydrology and Water Resources Management
Hydrological monitoring in urban regions is crucial to analyze hydrology and manage floods. Nevertheless, monitoring flood overflow in urban areas including the degree of flood overflow is frequently insufficient. Hydrological models' ability to provide early flood warnings is limited by this...
Hydrology and Water Resources Management
Flood forecasting is significant for hydrology and disaster management due to the complex and nonlinear nature of flood-related data. There are several conventional forecasting methods often failed to effectively capture both spatial and temporal dependencies that leads to inaccurate predictions. In...
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...
Air pollution and health
The purpose of our study was to assess the adverse outcomes of exposure to toluene (Tol) on the male reproductive system and to investigate the potential efficacy of Punica granatum juice (PJ) and peel aqueous extract (PAE) against these effects. Rats were divided into the following groups: Control...
Air pollution and health
This study investigates surface water pollution in two dams in northeastern Algeria: Ourkiss Dam in Oum El Bouaghi Province and Babar Dam in Khenchela Province, over a year (March 2023 to February 2024). The research assesses pollution levels, organic contamination, and nutrient status using several...
Air pollution and health
This study presents an innovative approach to air quality assessment by integrating low-cost sensor networks with line source modeling. The research focuses on monitoring air pollutants in urban environments, particularly along a busy highway corridor in Chennai, India. A portable sensor kit was...
Air pollution and health
Indoor air quality significantly impacts health and well-being, making the reduction of carbon dioxide (CO₂) concentrations essential in urban environments. The increasing concentration of carbon dioxide (CO₂) in indoor environments poses significant risks to air quality and human health. This study...
Sustainable Energy
Elucidating the mechanism of the correlation between urban spatial agglomeration processes and carbon emission levels can provide valuable scientific underpinnings for town planning under the constraints of low-carbon goals. This study investigates the characteristics of urban spatial agglomeration...
Sustainable Energy
Conventional electrical power systems often prioritize economic gain over environmental protection, which can lead to negative environmental consequences, such as emissions from thermal power plants. In recent years, there has been significant research and investment aimed at addressing the...