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The Future of Farming with Advances in Biological Control Techniques for Crop Health

Akanand, A. Krishnamoorthi, Pavan K. Patel, Sonal Kumar, Chirag V khambhu, Sapna, Vijay Kumar & Hariharan Selvam · Microbiology Research Journal International · 2024

The future of farming holds great promise with the advancement of biological control techniques aimed at enhancing crop health and sustainability. Biological control involves harnessing natural enemies of pests, such as predators, parasitoids, and pathogens, to manage pest popula...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/mrji/2024/v34i71461

Exploration of Genetic Parameters of Pea Genotypes Using Different Environmental Conditions

R. P. Jaiswal, B. R. Pandey, V. Kumar & S. K. Pandey · International Journal of Environment and Climate Change · 2021

The estimate of genetic variability was observed for fifteen traits on fifty two genotypes. The ANOVA indicated that the mean sum of squares due to genotypes were highly significant for all the traits, respectively in all the environmental conditions. High magnitude of phenotypic...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ijecc/2021/v11i1230565

Evaluation of the Impacts of Oil Pollution and a Sustainability Assessment: A Focus Group Case Study of Ogoniland, Nigeria

Ime Ben, Chigozie Nwankpa & Jim Baird · International Journal of Environment and Climate Change · 2021

The growing impact of climate change has piqued public interest in determining the effects of people's actions on future generations. However, while environmentalists continue to advocate for accountability, most people in the places where the majority of these pollutions occur,...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ijecc/2021/v11i1130547

Microbial Pesticides for Insect Pest Management: Success and Risk Analysis

Mandla Rajashekhar, Banda Rajashekar, Eetela Sathyanarayana, M. C. Keerthi, Padala Vinod Kumar, K. RamaKrishna, Kalisetti Vanisree, Guptha Neelima, G. Madhuri & Ongole Shaila · International Journal of Environment and Climate Change · 2021

Biotic stress is a major cause for pre and postharvest losses in agriculture. Food crops of the world are damaged by more than of 10,000 species of insects 30,000 species of weeds, 1,00, 000 types of diseases (due to fungi, viruses, bacteria and various microbes) and a 1,000 spec...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ijecc/2021/v11i430388

Environmental Effects on Physicochemical Compositions, Microbial Load and Heavy Metal Content of Retailed Cut Fruits in NsukkaMain Market Enugu, Nigeria

Obeta, Nwamaka Alexandra, Ugwuona, Fabian Uchenna, Uchegbu, Nneka Nkechi & Oguamanam, Chinenye Sybil · Asian Food Science Journal · 2021

The study evaluated the environmental effects on physico-chemical compositions, microbial load and heavy metal content of cut fruits retailed in Nsukka main market. Whole fruits were procured from fruit vendors in the market. They were washed, peeled (except watermelon) and divid...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/afsj/2021/v20i230271

Thermal Power Station and Human Health in an Agriculturally Green Ecology: The Impact and Perception

Sk Wasaful Quader, Arindam Ghosh, S. K. Acharya, Monirul Haque, Kabita Mondal & Amitava Biswas · International Journal of Environment and Climate Change · 2020

Thermal power stations are now considered as the foremost global concern as these are responsible to produce detrimental effects on the environment. Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a process of evaluating the likely environmental impact so proposed project or development...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ijecc/2020/v10i1030247

How Political Events Can Motivate Some Risk Mitigation Activities for Climate Change

Maliha Farrooz, Robin Dillon & Chris Hydock · International Journal of Environment and Climate Change · 2019

Aim: To stem the risks of future climate change, more people need to be motivated to take actions that will mitigate the release of greenhouse gases into the environment. Important to this discussion was that these actions include both public and private sphere behaviors. Duratio...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ijecc/2019/v9i630122

Source Identification of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Water at Point of Effluent Discharge into the New Calabar River, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria

O. S. Edori & W. A. Iyama · International Journal of Environment and Climate Change · 2019

Water samples from effluents discharge points were analyzed for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) concentration using chromatographic techniques. The result obtained showed the presence of all the PAHs categories in the water samples. The total concentrations of PAHs in the...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ijecc/2019/v9i630119

Bioremediation: Step towards Improving Human Welfare

Parminder Kaur & Leena Parihar · Annual Research & Review in Biology · 2014

The term “bioremediation” refers to the process by which toxic contaminants such as xenobiotics are reduced into non-toxic by-products (carbon dioxide and water or organic acids and methane) with the help of biological agents. Most of the organisms’ especially human beings are co...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ARRB/2014/9914

Influence of Abiotic Factors on Anti-reproductive Activity of Bait-containing Papain in Lymnaea acuminata

Arun Kumar Srivastava, D. K. Singh & Vinay Kumar Singh · Annual Research & Review in Biology · 2013

Aims: To investigate the anti-reproductive action of papain against Lymnaea acuminata with respect to abiotic factors. Snail Lymnaea acuminata is the intermediate host of Fasciola species, which causes endemic fasciolosis in cattle and human population. Fasciolosis is a disease o...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ARRB/2014/4163

Tropical Forest Landscape Change and the Role of Agroforestry Systems in Southern Nigeria

Edmund C. Merem, Joan Wesley, Yaw A. Twumasi, Chandra Richardson & Coney Romorno · International Journal of Environment and Climate Change · 2012

The paper analyzes tropical forest landscape change and deforestation trends in Nigeria. Emphasis’ are on the issues, the environmental analysis of the trends, factors influencing it, and community agroforestry efforts. The time frame and setting for the study runs through the we...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJECC/2012/1847

Conversion of Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE) and Polypropylene (PP) Waste Plastics into Liquid Fuel Using Thermal Cracking Process

Moinuddin Sarker, Mohammad Mamunor Rashid, Md. Sadikur Rahman & Mohammed Molla · International Journal of Environment and Climate Change · 2012

In every sector of the world today energy is essential. Energy has many forms such as electricity, transportation fuel and so on. A large amount of energy is produced from crude oil, which is used to produce petroleum and petroleum to produce daily usable plastics. The solution t...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJECC/2012/994