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Dispersion modelling of air pollutants in a hilly city in India

, 2020
Vehicular pollution is one of the major sources of air pollution in urban locales that have reportedly elevated concentrations of air pollutants. This study aims to examine the performance of two air quality dispersion models, STREET and CALINE 4 to ...
Kumar, Prashant, Gurjar, B.R, Gurjar, B. R, Ganguly, Ranjav, Sharma, Divyansh, Ganguly, Rajiv   +5 more
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Impacts of Climate Change on Groundwater Quality in the Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain: A Review

JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association, Volume 62, Issue 3, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This review integrates hydrogeological and geochemical processes to assess the impacts of climate change on groundwater quality in the Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain (NACP). Projected changes in air temperature, precipitation, and sea‐level rise are expected to influence groundwater recharge, discharge, storage, and seawater intrusion in ...
Zahid Aziz, Nicholas A. Procopio
wiley   +1 more source

Indoor Air Quality. Volatile Organic Compounds: Sources, Sampling and Analysis

, 2011
Since the 70s research has found in Europe and in the United States that individuals spend between 70 and 90% of their time indoors. Health studies have found that exposures to a variety of air pollutants indoors can be substantially higher than outdoors,
ZOCCOLILLO, Lelio, BACALONI, Alessandro, Alessandro Bacaloni, INSOGNA, SUSANNA, Susanna Insogna, Lelio Zoccolillo   +5 more
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Impact of Waste Management on Public Health and Environmental Sustainability [PDF]

EPJ Web of Conferences
Rapidly escalating global waste generation poses serious challenges to environmental quality and public health. Currently, as per the World Bank's What a Waste 2.0 report, the world produces over 2 billion tonnes of solid waste annually, a figure ...
Purohit Harsh, Pandya Veda, Chauhan Mehul   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis of Radon Concentrations in a Radioactive Working Space

, 2016
Radioactive working spaces represent a true challenge for building service engineers in designing a ventilation and air conditioning system because these have to satisfy much more demands in comparison with normal systems.The authors have presented a ...
Dogaru, Gheorghe, Ciobanu, Mihai Catalin, Catalina, Tiberiu   +2 more
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Assessment of Natural and Anthropogenic Radioactivity of the Princes' Islands in the Sea of Marmara

, 2020
In this study, the activity concentrations of naturally occurring U-238, Th-232 and K-40 and anthropogenic Cs-137 radionuclides were measured for 56 soil and beach sand samples collected from the Princes' Islands (Istanbul) in the Sea of Marmara, using a
Hafızoğlu, Nurgül, İsel, Pınar, Ganioğlu, Ela, Ağgez, Güler, Yıldırım Baştemur, Gizem, Sahin, Latife   +5 more
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Radioactive contamination in Iraq and its impact on birth defects for the period (2004-2013)

مجلة كلية التربية للبنات, 2019
In the present time, radioactive contamination is considered one of the most dangerous types of environmental pollution. It usually takes place because of a leakage of radioactive materials to one of the environment natural components, such as, water ...
زينب يعقوب مجيد
doaj  

Investigation of Conventional Radiation and Radionuclide at Ba-Phalaborwa Roads, South Africa

Applied and Environmental Soil Science
Road surface screening with the AT6101CE GPS detector was conducted in the Ba-Phalaborwa area of South Africa to provide a thorough distribution map of radioactive pollution and absorbed dose rate contribution.
Fhulufhelo Nemangwele, Pfano Nemakonde, Thuso Mudau   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impregnation on activated carbon for removal of chemical warfare agents (CWAs) and radioactive content

, 2021
Nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare (NBC) agents cause an inevitable threat to defense forces and civilians. Exposure to these toxic agents causes a lot of damage to lives.
Kiani, Sidra Shaoor, Farooq, Amjad, Ahmad, Masroor, Irshad, Muhammad Asim, Irfan, Naseem, Nawaz, Mohsan   +5 more
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Characteristics of environmental harm in the context of air pollution. [PDF]

, 2002
A framework that allows a qualitative assessment of technical and socio-economic aspects of environmental harm has been developed; capturing not only the physical aspects of damage but also how society may feel about it. Technical characteristics of harm
J. G. Irwin, Irwin, J. G., R. Duarte-Davidson, Duarte-Davidson, Raquel, S. J. T. Pollard, Pollard, Simon J. T.   +5 more
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