Globally, the incidences of environmental improvements owing to seizing the anthropogenic activities during the lockdown have been reported through news articles and photographs, yet a formal scholarly study has been lacking ...
Over the last thirty years, several techniques of groundwater (GW) remediation based on the principles of physical (air sparging), biological (bioventing), and chemical (e.g., ion exchange) processes have proven to be ...
The Kishtwar Window (KW) of the NW Himalaya exposes the northwestern termination of the orogen-parallel anticlinal stack of thrust nappes, termed as the Lesser Himalayan Duplex and its evolution portrays rapid exhumation ...
We evaluate the imprints of urbanization, landuse and lifestyle on the prevalence and provenance of antibiotic resistance in the tropical rivers of Sri Lanka (Kelani and Gin) and India (Sabarmati, and Brahmaputra River). ...
In order to benefit the public, community workers and scientific community, we hereby present a chronicle of SARS-CoV-2 that leads to the unseen precedent of social distancing and lockdown owing to coronavirus disease ...
The present study reviews the overall perspectives of end-use studies on urban water crisis management by analysing their beneficial application in water conservation and wastewater recycling. The paper incorporates a ...
To date, the world perhaps has never waited for the summer so impatiently in the entire Anthropocene, owing to the debate whether increasing temperature and humidity will decrease the environmental endurance of SARS-CoV-2. ...
Kumar, Manish; Chaminda, G. G. Tushara; Honda, Ryo(Nature Research, 2020-04)
We evaluated the occurrence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, antibiotic-resistant gene, and metal concentration in a tropical river of Sri Lanka as a pre-emptive effort to understand the seasonal impact on their prevalence. ...
Isotope dilution techniques (IDT) and sequential extraction procedures (SEPs) were compared to apprehend the differences between two techniques in determining metal exchangeability and vulnerability to pollute the urban ...
Jain, Vikrant; S., Sonam; Singh, Ajit; Sinha, Rajiv; Tandon, Sampat(International Union of Geological Sciences, 2020-03)
Every river basin is characterised by an evolutionary history, which may be analysed at different time scales. This study provides a geological and geomorphic history of different river basins of India at different time ...
There is an increasing trend of developing various low-cost biogenic sorbents for the efficient and economical removal of noxious metals . Curry leaf powder (CLP), a promising non-toxic biosorbent containing several bioactive ...
The present study examines the arsenic associated human health risk in Sri Lanka with due consideration to age and gender vulnerability. While the existing low-grade metamorphic rock carries less possibility of arsenic ...
Deka, Bhaskar Jyoti; Guo, Jiaxin; Jeong, Sanghyun; Kumar, Manish; An, Alicia Kyoungjin(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2020-01)
Marine algae produce organic matter, namely algal organic matter (AOM), especially during a harmful algal bloom. AOM has been recognised as a key cause for the formation of organic fouling on membranes in seawater desalination ...
Arsenic (As) and fluoride (F-) are the two most conspicuous contaminants, in terms of distribution and menace, in aquifers around the world. While the majority of studies focus on the individual accounts of their ...
Soni, Vikram; Shekhar, Shashank; Jain, Vikrant(Indian Academy of Sciences, 2019-12)
The present article highlights the need for a clear techno-legal definition of the river floodplains in India. In the context of environment protection, it reviews some of the recent judgements passed by the National Green ...
Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are being debated for being the hot spots for the development of antibiotic resistance in pathogenic microbial communities. We observed the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria ...
India, a leading developing country in the Asian continent, is worldwide famousfor its diversified and complex monsoon rainfall system, and the factors associ-ated with it. The peninsular shape in the southern half provides ...
This paper aims to re-examine the current urban water use system in the urban areas of developing country discuss a better way for resilience investigation. The study proposes that analysis of data on the available amount ...