Black carbon is a potent climate-warming component of particulate matter formed by the incomplete combustion of fossil-fuels, wood and other fuels. Complete combustion would turn all the carbon in the fuel into carbon dioxide, but combustion is never complete, and CO2, CO, volati...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2021/v16i430273
Aim: The study evaluated selected metal contents and phytochemicals present in Ficus capreifolia and Mangifera indica extracts commonly used antidiabetic plants from Aluu and Bodo communities in Rivers State, Nigeria. Place and Duration of Study: University of Port-Harcourt, Ch...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2021/v16i430274
Bangladesh is a densely populated agricultural country. A wide range of products of pesticides being used in Bangladesh is already considered a health and environmental concern by different international agencies including the World Health Organization (WHO). Excessive, irrationa...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2021/v16i430272
Solar cookers currently produced are solar systems that use parabolic heat transfer to concentrate sun rays on a cooker. The new trend is focus on the cooker that uses a flat collector operating as a thermosiphon where the heat transfer fluid (oil) flows by natural convection. Th...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2021/v16i430271
Introduction: Despite the efforts of Governments and non-governmental organizations in sponsoring ceramic water purifier (CWP) filter project across the globe, some rural communities in Ekiti State, Nigeria are yet to benefit from it. One of the major technical difficulties hinde...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2021/v16i430270
Purpose: The main focus is to find out the environmental challenges that Bangladesh is dealing for the huge influx of Rohingya refugee people to Bangladesh. The research also aims to assess the dynamic situation of the crisis, identify the roles of Bangladesh government, NGOs as...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2021/v16i430269
P. O. Phil-Eze, Wali Elekwachi, L. C. Bosco-Abiahu, H. Wizor Collins, Abdullahi Muktar, O. Afolabi Omobolaji & Ihunda C. Eze·Asian Journal of Environment & Ecology·2021
Generally, vegetation change through the conversion of the world’s forest land to other uses has assumed an increasing scale due to the unprecedented growth of the human population which increases the demand for food and land. Some believed that decrease in vegetation in the area...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2021/v16i430268
Multi-stakeholder approach has an overall improvement in conservation and management of mangrove forests resources, more so with a functional coordination framework among stakeholders. Mida creek and Gongoni-Marereni sites were compared in terms of the presence of the multi-stake...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2021/v16i430267
Climate change is already having noticeable effects on water utilities in Nzoia River Basin. Extreme weather and climate-related occurrences are becoming more common and intense, as predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Third Assessment Report. Becaus...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2021/v16i430266
Y. M. Mohammed, M. Hadizat, M. A. Umar, Y. Ibrahim, H. Mohammed, I. M. Ibrahim, A. S. Muhammad, Y. Umar & H. Kanki·Asian Journal of Environment & Ecology·2021
Plastic pollution in aquatic ecosystems is a growing environmental concern, as it has the potential to harm ecology, imperil aquatic organisms and cost ecological damage. Although rivers and other freshwater environments are known to play an important role in carrying land-based...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2021/v16i430265