Environments  

Kelvin O. Yoro and Patrick T. Sekoai

The global atmospheric concentration of anthropogenic gases, such as carbon dioxide, has increased substantially over the past few decades due to the high level of industrialization and urbanization that is occurring in developing countries, like South Af... see more

Wen-Tien Tsai

In the past decades, hazardous air pollutants (HAPs), so-called air toxics or toxic air pollutants, have been detected in the atmospheric air at low concentration levels, causing public concern about the adverse effect of long-term exposure to HAPs on hum... see more

Edoardo Bertone and Kelvin O’Halloran

Understanding and predicting Taste and Odour events is as difficult as critical for drinking water treatment plants. Following a number of events in recent years, a comprehensive statistical analysis of data from Lake Tingalpa (Queensland, Australia) was ... see more

Seleshi G. Yalew, Marloes L. Mul, Ann van Griensven, Ermias Teferi, Joerg Priess, Christian Schweitzer and Pieter van Der Zaag

Land-use and land-cover changes are driving unprecedented changes in ecosystems and environmental processes at different scales. This study was aimed at identifying the potential land-use drivers in the Jedeb catchment of the Abbay basin by combining stat... see more

Donald Kipruto Kimutai and Teiji Watanabe

Forests are a vital resource supporting the livelihoods of rural communities in Kenya. In spite of this significant role, human activities have put increased pressure on this resource, leading to continued forest-cover decline. To address forest-cover dec... see more

Andrea M. Bassi, Louise A. Gallagher and Hanna Helsingen

This review of the study “Road to Dawei”, conducted by WWF Greater Mekong, seeks to assess economic, social and environmental impacts of road construction between Kanchanaburi, Thailand and Dawei, Myanmar. It also aims to identify relevant Green Economy p... see more

Maria Panagiotidou, George Xydis and Christopher Koroneos

Islands present sustainable energy growth challenges due to a number of reasons such as remoteness, limited energy resources, vulnerability to external events and strong dependence on international trade agreements. In particular, the Dodecanese Islands o... see more

Takafumi Miyasaka, Toshiya Okuro, Xueyong Zhao and Kazuhiko Takeuchi

Previous field research on the Horqin Sandy Land (China), which has suffered from severe desertification during recent decades, revealed how land use on a sand-dune topography affects both land degradation and restoration. This study aimed to depict the s... see more

Yu-Pin Lin

Environments was launched two years ago, in March 2014.[...]

Hendra Prasetia, Masayuki Sakakibara, Yuri Sueoka and Koichiro Sera

This study aimed to determine the potential of naturally occurring Cretan brake fern (Pteris cretica) as a biomarker and hyperaccumulator in an abandoned mine in Southwest Japan. This species is a known hyperaccumulator of As. Total concentrations of heav... see more