Environmental pollution caused by human activities is a global public health concern. This review discusses the impact of different types of pollutants such as pesticides, metals, nanoparticles and others on land molluscs. These molluscs are of great interest as good model organisms for studying...

Al- Rifa'i Mosque is one of the most important mosques in Cairo. It suffers, like most of the historical buildings sited in urban areas, from many degradation phenomena related to the high level of pollution, especially soiling and formation of the black crusts on the facades of buildings and...

Background: Air pollution is the sixth highest risk factor for attributable disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) in North Africa and the Middle East, but the relative importance of different subtypes of air pollution and any potential differences in their health effects by population demographics ...

Agricultural soils are receiving a tremendous amount of pollutants that lead to land degradation. Therefore, it is an urgent requirement to determine and mapping the soil heavy metals content, that is the first task of soil remediation. Assanahrah area that locates at the north part of El-Beheira...

Egyptian aquaculture production has dramatically increased in recent years and is anticipated to represent a yield of 1.8MMT in 2018. Increased demand for fish production has led to a higher intensification of aquaculture to face these challenges. However, the current aquaculture practices and...

Owing to the increase of pollutant sources in oceans, seas, and lakes, there is an expected effect on growth and metabolism of planktonic algae which are considered primary producers in the ecosystem. Therefore, it becomes urgent to carry out laboratory studies to test to what extent these ...

Bank filtration (BF) is a low-cost water treatment technology in which surface water contaminants are removed through the biochemical and physical process taking place during the filtration process. This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of this technique to produce high drinking water...

The ecological and environmental issues caused by seawater intrusion, economic losses should not be neglected, especially from a long-term perspective. This research presents a new approach to calculate the water footprint of the crops that irrigated by coastal groundwater aquifers, considering...

Environmental pollution occasioned by artisanal activities and technical failures at exploration sites has affected mostly oil producing and other mineral resources mining regions in developed and developing nations. As conventional techniques of remediation seem to be progressively unreliable and ...

The densely populated Greater Cairo (GC) region suffers from severe air quality issues caused by high levels of anthropogenic activities, such as motorized traffic, industries, and agricultural biomass burning events, along with natural sources of particulate matter, such as wind erosion of arid...