Dozens of geoparks have been created in the world since the beginning of the 21st century. Their environmental impact is yet to be fully understood. A bibliographical survey was undertaken to systematically review the journal articles devoted to environmental pollution in geoparks. The considered...

Ragweed pollen is an important component of biological pollution in the urban environment, responsible for increasing respiratory allergies and significant contribution to the health impact of air pollution in the Bucharest area. The aim of this paper is to present the eight-year ragweed pollen...

The aim of this paper is to uncover the associations between air pollution, media consumption, and the prevalence of obesity. Based on data availability, this study draws on an unbalanced panel of 28 countries and develops and extracts relationships through robust System-General Method of Moments...

The control of toxic emissions has become of great scientific interest due to the continuous increase of pollutants released into the atmosphere. The fact that the fine particles suspended in the atmosphere have been proved to have a negative impact on human health has also contributed to an...

Danube River is considered one of the most important European rivers and it flows for a total distance of 2,860 km. The river plays an important role in activities such as transport and commercial fishing, which makes it permanently subjected to anthropogenic pressures. Metals are the main ...

This study makes an overview of the chemical pollutants, such as Be and its compounds, S and its compounds, P and its compounds, chlorine and chlorides, Na₂O, K₂O, Ti₂O, CaO, MgO, CuO, SiO₂, Al₂O₃, Fe₂O₃, Cr₂O₃, As₂O₃, that were registered in the mining operations areas in the cross-border region...

Honey is a concentrated product in which, certain environmental contaminants such as 137Caesium (Cs) and 134Cs radionuclides can appear naturally, caused by reducing the water content of flower nectar. Cs is an environmental contaminant, a fission product with a long lifespan(radioactive half-life...

In this paper is analyzed the impact on pollution with material particles PM 10, PM 2.5 on vegetation. The effects of particles of vegetation are: reduced light required for photosynthesis, increased leaf temperature due to changes in surface optical properties, impaired respiration, impaired...

The research was conducted on groundwater catchments located in the hilly and mountainous area of Moldova. One of the catchments presents a complex of negative factors in the site, of which the pollutants are predominant. The interference of economic activities in the protection zone has led to...

To assess the environmental pollution degree by the dairy industry, effluents from the wastewater treatment plant (monthly) and stormwater (half-yearly) were collected and analyzed over a period of two years (2015-2017). For the wastewater samples the indicators pH, total dissolved solids (TDS),...