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Water Pollution
Water pollution encompasses the contamination, degradation, or modification of water bodies due to the introduction of harmful substances or...
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Air Pollution
Air pollution is a pressing global issue that profoundly impacts human health, ecosystems, and overall quality of life. This chapter provides a...
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Noise Pollution
This chapter sheds light on the adverse consequences of excessive and unwanted sound on both the environment and human well-being. It delves into...
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Soil Pollution
Soil pollution has emerged as a critical environmental concern, impacting soil fertility, ecosystems, and human health. While natural sources like...
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Impacts of Nutrient Pollution
Nutrient pollution refers to overloading of aquatic environs by excessive influx of nutrients. Every creature has to taste death. The aging of...
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Arthropods as a Sustainable Biomonitoring Tool for Environmental Pollution
Arthropods include crabs, lobsters, prawns, crayfish, insects, spiders, scorpions, ticks, mites, centipedes, millipedes and others that are providing...
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Non-Specific Animal Esterases as Biomarkers of Pesticide Pollution of Aquatic Ecosystems (Review)
AbstractPollution of water resources with pesticides negatively affects aquatic organisms and makes water bodies unsuitable for use by humans....
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Industrial Pollution Management Approach
Every industry uses water in its operations and hence produces wastewater, also called industrial effluent. Industrial effluent contains inorganic...
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Ozone pollution threatens bird populations to collapse: an imminent ecological threat?
While bird populations are declining, the factors associated with this decline are unclear. Based on laboratory experiments, air pollution has long...
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Population Growth and Environmental Pollution in the Global South
Global human population has been on the rise, particularly in developing countries. The challenge of satisfying the needs of the increasing...
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Pollution in Freshwater: Impact and Prevention
Water is the life blood of all living things and the most important natural resource on the earth planet. The water is available in liquid, solid and...
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Cyanobacteria as Bioindicator of Water Pollution
Water pollution is a global problem in recent times, and its remedy has become imperative to safeguard the health of ecosystems and humans. To solve...
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Impact of light pollution on aquatic invertebrates: Behavioral responses and ecological consequences
AbstractArtificial light at night (ALAN) is a growing global problem altering the behavior of organisms and thereby community composition and...
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Pollution in Marine Ecosystem: Impact and Prevention
Marine ecosystems are aquatic environments with high levels of dissolved salt, such as those in or near the ocean. People’s direct and indirect...
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Characterizing sediment functional traits and ecological consequences respond to increasing antibiotic pollution
AbstractCurrent studies have shown that the taxonomic structures of ecologically important microbial communities are altered by antibiotic exposure,...
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Effect of Environmental Pollution on Nutritional Indices and the Phenoloxidase Activity of Agelastica alni (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Larvae
AbstractThe present study investigated the nutritional indices and immune responses of Agelastica alni L. larvae in heavy metal pollution (cadmium,...
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Macrophytes as a Sustainable Biomonitoring Tool Sustainable of Aquatic Pollution
Inorganic and organic contaminants pollute streams daily. Pollution and other manmade disruptions change aquatic ecosystems. Water pollution may come...
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Urban Air Pollution
This chapter examines one of the most severe urban environmental changes in the SENA region, urban air pollution. It first introduces the global...
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Effect of Chemical Pollution on the Fertility of Male Rodents from Natural Populations: Сomparing the Response of Sperm Morphology, Motility, and Concentration
AbstractThe results of studies of epididymal spermatozoa of three species of rodents (bank vole Clethrionomys glareolus , northern red-backed vole Cl....
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Artificial light and neurodegeneration: does light pollution impact the development of Alzheimer’s disease?
Two multidimensional problems of recent times — Alzheimer’s disease and light pollution — seem to be more interrelated than previously expected. A...
