Emerging Pollutants 35 min read
Veterinary Antibiotics in the Environment
Introduction CONCEPT AND MAIN CLASSES Antibiotics (ATBs) are natural or synthetic chemical agents that belong to the group of drugs…
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Emerging Pollutants 33 min read
Impact of Oil Spills on Marine Life
Introduction Environmental pollution caused by petroleum is of great concern. This is because petroleum hydrocarbons are toxic to all forms…
Emerging Pollutants 24 min read
Per fluorinated Chemicals in Sediments, Lichens, and Seabirds from the Antarctic Peninsula — Environmental Assessment and Management Perspectives
1Introduction Past research shows that legacy persistent organic pollutants (POPs) such as dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and hexachlorocyclohexanes (HCHs)…
Emerging Pollutants 25 min read
Heavy Metals — Soil Communities at Ecological Risk
Introduction The quality of human life depends on the chemical composition of the environment, including food, water, and many other factors…
Emerging Pollutants 19 min read
Ecological Risk and Distribution of Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Fish
Introduction The ability of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) to spread through long distances and remain in the environment has resulted…
Disaster Management 4 min read
Chemical Disaster
Chemical, being at the core of modern industrial systems, has attained a very serious concern for disaster management within government,…
Disaster Management 1 min read
Biological disasters
Biological disasters are causative of process or phenomenon of organic origin or conveyed by biological vectors, including exposure to pathogenic micro-organisms,…
Disaster Management 3 min read
Nuclear and Radiological Emergency
The growth in the application of nuclear science and technology in the fields of power generation, medicine, industry, agriculture, research…
Disaster Management 2 min read
Heat Wave
A Heat Wave is a period of abnormally high temperatures, more than the normal maximum temperature that occurs during the…
Disaster Management 4 min read
Tsunami
The Earth’s lithosphere is broken up into a bunch of discrete pieces, called plates that move around the surface of…
Disaster Management 8 min read
Search and Rescue
The first thing before taking part in a “Search and Rescue” operation is to make sure that you don’t put…
Disaster Management 2 min read
Collapse of Individual Structures
This refers to mechanical collapse of certain structures, e.g. building, bridges etc. This causes people to get buried in the…
