Antibiotics are regarded as a new group of environmental pollutants in recent years because of they are difficult to degrade and highly ecotoxic even in low concentrations. More and more attentions have been paid to their residues and removals in environmental. With the wide use, sulfamethoxazole...

Environmental management programs that attempt to cope with institutional weaknesses in developing countries by being less reliant on governments' formal regulatory apparatus are becoming increasingly common. Three leading examples of such innovative programs are (1) public disclosure and voluntary ...

Solid fuel use is defined as the domestic combustion of organic materials such as animal dung, crop residues, wood and coal used for cooking, lighting and heating purposes. These sources include wood, dried twigs and grass, crop residues, and animal dungcakes, which collectively are called biomass...

This paper presents the recent research findings on the role of agroecosystem in climatic change mitigation and adaptation. It is established that low-input agriculture systems result in greater net GHG emissions than high-input systems, since the increase in emissions from extensification is...

This paper enumerates the recent findings regarding forest management and carbon cycle. The first of these is the demonstration that woodland creation and forest protection provide highly cost-effective and achievable abatement of GHG emissions when compared with carbon capture options across other ...

This paper briefly discusses the following topics: GHG sources, farm system and life cycle analysis; available and potential technologies for crop production; and barriers and solutions to adoption of improved management practices agricultural production.

The quality of surface waters is generally assessed by monitoring of Escherichia coli. The presence of fecal indicators in waters doesn't provide information about their possible sources. Recent studies have utilised specific mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences for the source characterisation of...

The incidence of colorectal carcinoma is increasing in young patients, in contrast to the well established wisdom that it is exclusively diagnosed in patients older than 40 years. In this survey, we examined all possible risk factors, and we recommend a number of measures for early detection in...

This paper reviews the current development on coupled electro-kinetic phytoremediation (EK-phytoremediation) technology, including the selection principles of plants for the technology and interactions between heavy metal(loid) input and their bioavailability in soils. Furthermore, assisted...

This paper provides an overview of current research on the bioretention technique for urban storm water treatment, which involves the collection of storm water into a vegetated land depression and allowing the collected storm water to infiltrate through the underlying filter layer. Factors...