Try to find water in the desert. If you find a small piece of land where the earth is wet, dig deep inside to look for water. Another method of getting water is to cover a green plant with a plastic bag. As it breathes, the water vapor will collect inside the bag. Little by ...
mosquitoes like unpolluted stagnant water without submerged vegetation for oviposition and larval development [27, 28]. Highly urbanised city centres are not very favourable for Anopheles malaria vectors, whereas certain areas along rivers or in low-lying areas are. Anopheles arabiensis, a member of ...
Genotypes distributions were recorded in an Excel datasheet and analysis performed using SPSS 25.0. Allelic frequencies were calculated using the fol- lowing formula ƒ(R) = (2n.RR + n.RS)/2n, where n is the number of mosquitoes of a given genotype, RR represents the homozygote ...
Heavy metals (HMs) are considered as one of the most problematic environmental pollutants1,2. It is linked to their persistence, non-biodegradability, toxicity, and bioaccumulation. Their origin in water bodies may be either natural (e.g. weathering of bedrock, volcanic eruptions) or anthropogenic...
In conditions of limited social mobility, rural and suburban areas may relieve pressure on urban recreational areas, as their tourist potential has not been fully used. Such possibility is significant in pandemic conditions when people are looking for areas where they will be able to engage in act...
where enormous farming and metal-induced human activities are taken place (Wu et al.2019; Kumar et al.2021). It has been reported that persons respond comparatively fast to air and water contamination; therefore, it is necessity to evaluate concentrations and probable origin of trace metals in ...
the west named Tham Phang, also called collapsed cave beach, has more open water circulation (Figure1). Tham Phang is minimally populated by islanders except occasional visitors, and has neither agriculture nor industry. Subsequently, more and increasing amount of wastes was reported in Tha Wang ...
Figure 1c illustrates the detailed terrain where the urban areas are located: the city lies on Northern Henan Plain with the Taihang Mountain Range wandering in the north. Prevailing wind directions are southwest (28%) and northeast (27%), wind speed is high in spring (3.3 m/sec) and low...
). These results indicate that the soils around coal-fired power plants was heavily polluted. Also as shown in Table 1, it is reasonable to predicate that the mercury concentrations of surrounding soils will increase, if these two power plants continue to operate. The average mercury ...
migratory system, in the western hemisphere, move through the US, one of the most urbanized countries in the world24, and concentrate during their non-breeding stage in the less urbanized but still light-polluted region formed by Mexico, Central America, and the northern portion of South ...