Abstract: Rajnandgaon district (Chhattisgarh, India) faces serious arsenic pollution problems. Tree bark could be a valuable indicator of As and heavy metals air contamination. In this study, road dust was sampled in 13 locations, ...

Abstract: Macrophytes (aquatic plants or hydrophytes) are sources of food and oxygen for aquatics (e.g., fish, invertebrates) and act as bioindicators for the assessment of environmental conditions in water reservoirs. This ...

Abstract: Persistent organic pollutants, such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), pose a serious risk for human health and the environment. In this study, PCBs contamination and sources of ambient air, road dust, and sediments in ...

Abstract: Complex environmental and health issues are on the rise in India because of the country’s huge emissions of carbonaceous particulates. The aim of this study was to describe concentration variation, segregation, composition, ...

Abstract: Natural contamination of arsenic (As) and heavy metals (HMs) poses a health threat in many regions. Ambagarh Tehsil, Rajnandgaon, Central India, is a heavily polluted area due to mineralization of geogenic As and HMs in ...

Abstract: The groundwater of the the Bemetara district of Chhattisgarh in central India over a large area is hard in nature due to its high mineral content. An elevated concentration of Na+, Mg2+, Ca2+, and SO42− in the groundwater ...

Abstract: Particulate air pollution during the winter season in the urban regions of India is severe due to substantial fuel and mineral combustion in adverse climatic conditions. In this work, chemical characteristics and sources ...