Gurvitch O. Nsiala, Dieudonné E. Musibono, Athanase N. Kusonika, Paul Martial T. Tene, Patience M. Ngelinkoto & Emmanuel M. Biey·Asian Journal of Environment & Ecology·2023
Aims: Discharges from oil exploitation contain very toxic and persistent organic and inorganic environmental pollutants. The present study aims to characterize the ecotoxicity of the soils of these three villages subjected to oil exploitation activities. Study Design: This resear...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2023/v20i4447
Ramírez-Sánchez Hermes Ulises, Fajardo-Montiel Aida Lucia, García-Guadalupe Mario Enrique & Ulloa-Godinez Héctor Hugo·Asian Journal of Environment & Ecology·2023
During the last 150 years, the increase in the average temperature of the atmosphere and oceans has been documented due to the increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases produced by the burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, excess production and reduced capacity to captu...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2023/v20i4446
Joshua Dwomoh, Samuel Ayetibo Ofori, Dennis Kwabena Frimpong, Charles Nyarko Osei, Eldith Adongo & Stephen Appiah·Asian Journal of Environment & Ecology·2023
Globally, there has been a rapid increase in biodiversity loss, these losses have been attributed to habitat loss and invasive flora and fauna species. Extensive work has been done on the losses brought about by invasive fauna species, however, the impact of invasive flora specie...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2023/v20i4445
Due to the urgency in climate change, the industry is mobilized to reduce its greenhouse gases. Compressed air represents nearly 10% of electricity used in industry. The research was carried out in an industrial food site in Europe. This research includes a case study and gives a...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2023/v20i3443
Bioremediation is one of the most imminent technological approaches to meet hazardous waste problems, which transforms toxic chemicals into less toxic or nontoxic substances using bacteria or fungi. Instead of direct chemical or physical treatment, such biological transformation...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2023/v20i4444
As an outcome of agricultural activities, land degradation causes detrimental impacts on the environment and soil. It requires sustainable measures to combat the problem that is becoming critical worldwide. Despite many technological improvement programmes in agriculture, especia...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2023/v20i3441
Rapid economic growth has increased the speed of resource changes and many of these changes have rapid and harmful effects Natural environment such as agriculture, forest, water resources, value Cultural things such as historical landscape and health Humans have put Land use chan...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2023/v20i3440
In the atmosphere, particulate matter of 10 microns (µm) or less in diameter (PM10) is an indicator of air pollution. Their harmful health effects on humans range from minor irritation to chronic respiratory infections. PM10 levels were assessed in the ambient air including the i...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2023/v20i3439
The principal objective of the present research is to record data regarding the aquatic plants of Somwarapete taluk of Kodagu district. Three major lakes were selected for the study for a period of one year, i.e., June 2020–July 2021. A total of 43 species were recorded, belongin...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2023/v20i3438
Governments, policymakers, at most public fora, condemn activities of chainsaw operations as illegal and in fact, it has been criminalized with an explanation that it is wasteful and destructive to the environment. The study compared species, diameter distribution, extracted, vol...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2023/v20i2437
It is a surprising realization to many that a changing temperature tightly correlates with the carbon dioxide (CO2) levels worldwide in a linear, lockstep manner with a reversible but very short temporal feedback loop of only a few decades. A mapping of the past 400,000 years of...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2023/v20i2436
The rapid growth of urbanization leads to the demand for new vehicles. With increasing numbers of new vehicles, vehicle washing centers also increased. Most of these washing centers are used groundwater. As a result, the groundwater level is decreasing, leading to a shortage in t...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2023/v20i2435
Greater adjutant stork (Leptoptilos dubios) is the largest and rarest stork belonging to the order Ciconiformes. It is one of the threatened bird species of the world and widely considered to be endangered. The present investigation was carried out to study the nest site selectio...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2023/v20i2434
This research work was carried out to assess the concentrations of selected trace elements in Eleyele upstream lake, Ibadan, South-Western, Nigeria. Nine water samples and eight sediment samples were analyzed for their physiochemical and trace element properties to quantify pollu...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2023/v20i2433
Water-borne diseases still present a major health burden in Africa. Large segments of the rural population here have no access to potable water. This study has been designed to assess the physico-chemical and bacteriological quality of drinking water sources in the study area. Th...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2023/v20i1432