Diniz Pereira Leite Júnior, Elisangela Santana de Oliveira Dantas, Roseli de Souza, Marcelo Henrique de Souza, Lucas Hudson Durigon Ramos, Monaliza Sehn, Valmir Silvano Siqueira, Maria Madalena de Oliveira & Anagela Maria Acel Silva·International Journal of Environment and Climate Change·2021
Aim: Due to their biological richness and threat levels, the Cerrado and the Atlantic Forest of Brazil, along with other regions located in different parts of the planet, are identified a global hotspots and need greater attention due to the problems generated by global warming....
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2021/v11i530409
Scrutiny and analysis of various energy applications show that the energy conversion to useful work or new products has been systematically inefficient. The global energy’s total effective conversion efficiency is estimated only about 20% and about 80% of the energy has been disc...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2019/v9i1230160
The problem of antibiotic resistance develops when bacteria are able to grow in the presence of conventional antimicrobial drugs and today represents a serious public health issue. The environmental effects of global warming, by unknown genomic mechanisms of adaption, could drama...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2019/v9i830129
Increasingly, countries are gathering to address concerns surrounding climate change. The 2015 United Nations Conference of Parties, COP21, saw the emergence of a landmark agreement for collective global action. The tagline arising from this agreement was "Long live the planet. L...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2017/33843
Ana Gabriele Barbosa Casteliani, Vanessa Nessner Kavamura, Tiago Domingues Zucchi, Mírian Lobo Sáber, Rosely Santos do Nascimento, Rosa Toyoko Shiraishi Frighetto, Rodrigo Gouvêa Taketani & Itamar Soares de Melo·Microbiology Research Journal International·2014
The increase on the worldwide influx of solar ultraviolet radiation (UV-B) has inflicted a considerable challenge, due to its deleterious effects to live beings and pose a special threat to phyllosphere communities. However, UV-B influence on epiphytic yeasts associated with agri...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2014/11078
Regardless of the regional variability in the causes and effects of Climate Change, it poses a major threat to both global human and ecological survival. Therefore, adapting and mitigating its consequences require an integrated approach which is not mutually exclusive of any spec...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2011/210
Aims: The increased availability of reliable and efficient energy services stimulates new development alternatives. This article discusses the potential for such integrated systems in the stationary and portable power market in response to the critical need for a cleaner energy t...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2011/480
Between 1906 and 2005, records show that global average air temperature near the earth’s surface increased by 0.74 ± 0.18°C. If emissions of greenhouse gases, and in particular CO2, continue unabated the enhanced greenhouse effect may alter the world’s climate system irreversibly...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2011/118