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Bright Kwakye-Awuah, Baah Sefa-Ntiri, Elizabeth Von-Kiti, Isaac Nkrumah and Craig Williams
Ground water samples from residential homes in three Regions of Ghana: Central, Greater Accra and Ashanti, were analyzed for iron and manganese contamination. The samples were exposed to characterized zeolite Y by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron mic...
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Jianlei Qiao, Yonglu Lv, Yucai Feng, Chang Liu, Yi Zhang, Jinying Li, Shuang Liu and Xiaohui Weng
At present, the electronic nose has became a new technology for the rapid detection of pesticides. However, the technique may misidentify them for samples that have not been involved in training. Therefore, a hybrid model based on unsupervised and superv...
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Hosang Han and Jangwon Suh
The accurate prediction of soil contamination in abandoned mining areas is necessary to address their environmental risks. This study employed a combined model of machine learning and geostatistics to predict the spatial distribution of soil contaminatio...
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Chengmei Shang, Zhixi Geng, Yuanyuan Sun, Dongxue Che, Qingjiao Zhao, Ting Chen, Ming Tang and Lijuan Huo
With the development of industrial activities and the agricultural and mining industries, farmland soils are facing serious problems related to heavy metal contamination, especially cadmium (Cd) and arsenic (As) contamination. In this study, two industri...
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Yangxin Zhang, Jiangmei Zhang, Tuantuan Liu, Xinghua Feng, Tengxiang Xie and Haolin Liu
Many nuclear power plants have been built along China?s coasts, and the migration and diffusion of radioactive nuclides in coastal harbours is very concerning. In this study, considering the decay and free diffusion of radioactive nuclides, a local hydro...
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Livinia Saputra, Sang Hyun Kim, Kyung-Jin Lee, Seo Jin Ki, Ho Young Jo, Seunghak Lee and Jaeshik Chung
The vadose zone acts as a natural buffer against groundwater contamination, and thus, its attenuation capacity (AC) directly affects groundwater vulnerability to pollutants. A regression model from the previous study predicting the overall AC of soils ag...
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Lina Zhou, Leijinyu Zhou, Hongbo Wu, Tingting Jing, Tianhao Li, Jinsheng Li, Lijuan Kong and Limei Chen
In order to monitor cadmium contamination in lettuce quickly, non-invasively, and accurately, and to understand the growth status of lettuce under cadmium pollution, lettuce was used as the test material to detect and analyze the visible?near-infrared re...
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Vanessa Gonçalves, Antonio Albuquerque, Pedro Gabriel Almeida, Luís Ferreira Gomes and Victor Cavaleiro
The risk of aquifer contamination is determined by the interaction between the pollutant load and the vulnerability of an aquifer. Owing to the decomposition of bodies and degradation of artefacts, cemeteries may have a negative impact on groundwater qua...
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Laura Guimarães, António Paulo Carvalho, Pedro Ribeiro, Cláudia Teixeira, Nuno Silva, André Pereira, João Amorim and Luís Oliva-Teles
Triops longicaudatus is a crustacean typically inhabiting temporary freshwater bodies in regions with a Mediterranean climate. These crustaceans are easily maintained in the laboratory and show a set of biological features that make them good candidates ...
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Ilias Siarkos, Zisis Mallios and Pericles Latinopoulos
Groundwater nitrate contamination caused by the excessive use of nitrogen-based fertilizers has been widely recognized as an issue of significant concern in numerous rural areas worldwide. To mitigate nitrate contamination, corrective management practice...
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