Since 1985, scientists have been documenting a hypoxic zone, an area of low dissolved oxygen that cannot support marine life, in the Gulf of Mexico...

Leo E Miller's experience as a field-naturalist consists of nearly six years of almost continuous exploration in South America, and embraces practi...

Over 100 irrigation projects and systems can be found on Indian reservations primarily across the western United States. The scarcity of water in m...

This book presents an overview of conclusions and future works in new research and design parameters of Spanish indoor ambiences. These conclusions...

The health risks posed by indoor pollutants have concerned scientists for many years. Because people spend a high percentage of their time indoors,...

Industrial pollution occurs when the waste from industries are directly dumped into surrounding water bodies and open lands which causes various ty...

This book examines the current economic practices of water management in the Southern Kurdistan Region (SKR) and suggests ways to change environmen...

Many voices, domestic and international, have called upon the United States to increase foreign assistance to address climate change. Proponents ma...

Many species of plants, microbes, and animals have been introduced around the world. Species are considered "invasive" or "alien" when they are not...

Today's irrigation management faces challenges and competition with other sectors (ie: household, industry, and environmental), quality degradation...

The Klamath River Basin on the California-Oregon border is a focal point for local and national discussions on water allocation and species protect...

H2O is a substance that only on the Earth exists in three phases: solid, liquid and gaseous. On other celestial bodies known to us it does not occu...

After the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, and the anthrax attacks in the fall of 2001, federal and state personnel provided response, re...

Coastal lagoons are particularly complex environments in which the transition between marine and continental waters is gradual, due to the continui...

The edited book volume "Land Use: Planning, Regulations, and Environment" is a diverse compilation of ten chapters covering different facets of the...

This book includes research from selected international authors and institutions that consider land use management to be an important aspect in the...

A landfill is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial. Historically, landfills have been the most common methods of organised waste di...

A landslide is a major geological hazard, which poses a serious threat to the global human population and various infrastructures like highways, ra...

Solar energy can be divided into direct and indirect categories. Most energy sources on Earth are forms of indirect solar energy. Coal, oil and nat...

This volume presents new leading-edge research on environmental biodegradation which is the destruction of organic compounds by micro-organisms. Mi...

Due to its high energy density, liquid hydrogen is one of the best alternative fuels. As such, Liquefaction: Analysis and Assessment introduces hyd...

UN declared 2011 as the International Year of Forests (IYF). Many organizations and stakeholders have been involved all around the world and many i...

Current freshwater availability is reducing because of climate change, rapid urbanization, and an increase in population. Due to these situations, ...

In this book, the authors summarise basic and experimental knowledge on sources and toxicity of cadmium and overview mechanisms of toxicity and det...

The chemical element mercury is the only metal that is a liquid at standard temperature and pressure. It is an extremely rare element in the Earth'...

Metals are important environmental pollutants and their toxicity is a problem of increasing significance for ecological, nutritional, and environme...

Methylmercury (MeHg) is considered a major environmental pollutant that bioaccumulates in fish tissues in direct relation to their age and predator...

Microbial ecology is the interrelationship between micro-organisms and their environment. Due to the high level of horizontal gene transfer among m...

Acid mine drainage refers to the outflow of acidic water from (usually abandoned) metal mines or coal mines. However, other areas where the earth h...

Civil and environmental engineers make frequent use of mathematical models to handle free-surface hydraulics problems as simulation of river and ch...

Molecular biological techniques enable rapid detection of pathogenic micro-organisms in water by providing levels of sensitivity and specificity di...