by Laladhas Krishna Panicker  , Marcus J. Fila  , Achuthsankar S Nair  and Oommen V. Oommen

Received: 31 January 2023;  Published: 07 August 2023;  doi: 10.21926/aeer.2303042

Sasthamkotta Lake eco-region is a freshwater Ramsar site in Kerala, India. Eco-regions are ecologically and geographically defined larger land or water mass areas with a characteristic assemblage of the ecosystem and significant biodiversity. A decentralized and locally self-sustaining mechanism has been achieved in managing this eco-region by a participatory model through a joint Biodiversity Management Committee (jBMC) constitution. BMCs are custodians of the environment, and biodiversity, confined to a village/P [...]

by Sonal Mishra  , Neha Kumari  , Varsha K. Singh  and Rajeshwar P Sinha

Received: 18 January 2023;  Published: 03 August 2023;  doi: 10.21926/aeer.2303041

Cyanobacteria have great potential as a platform for biofuel production because of their fast growth, ability to fix CO2 gas, and genetic tractability. They also preserve the sustainability of an ecosystem without harming the environment. High-performance biofuels made from cyanobacteria can be utilized as a base for the production of green energy. Although a lot of studies have been conducted where plants and crops are used as the source of energy, cyanobacteria have been reported to have a more efficient photosyn [...]

by Francis B. Elehinafe  and Oyetunji B. Okedere

Received: 20 October 2022;  Published: 28 July 2023;  doi: 10.21926/aeer.2303040

This review covered recent research products on fuel-briquette with emphasis on its production technologies and physical characteristics involving shapes, volumes, resiliencies, and mechanical compressive strengths; combustion properties such as high heating values, volatile matters, moisture contents, ash contents and fixed carbon; chemical analyses for the content of components such as nitrogen, hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen and carbon; emission characterization such as and economic potentials. This review provides op [...]

by Esther Mbuci Kinyua  , George William Atwoki Nyakairu  , Emmanuel Tebandeke  and Oghenekaro Nelson Odume

Received: 19 February 2023;  Published: 20 July 2023;  doi: 10.21926/aeer.2303039

Recently, microplastics have emerged as a major environmental pollutant and have been documented globally. Several studies have shown that microplastics can accumulate heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants as they pass through the environment due to their functional groups interacting with and complex these substances. While conventional wastewater treatment methods can reduce a significant amount of microplastics, many still make their way into rivers and oceans worldwide from their effluents. One of the [...]

by Zakhar Slukovskii  and Tatiana Shelekhova

Received: 09 March 2023;  Published: 05 July 2023;  doi: 10.21926/aeer.2303038

Core sediment (sapropel) samples were collected from Lake Okunozero, the Republic of Karelia, Russia, to assess the distribution of heavy metals and their main fractions, probable sources of pollution, and potential ecological and toxicological risks for the water body. Heavy metal concentrations were measured by the mass spectrometry method using an XSeries-2 ICP-MS. The sequential extraction of heavy metals from sapropel samples was performed using the scheme of Tessier. According to the Russian Interstate Standa [...]

by Shih-Ang Hsu

Received: 12 March 2023;  Published: 20 June 2023;  doi: 10.21926/aeer.2302037

For wind-wave interaction studies, from the literature, two criteria for the wind sea are used: one is the wave age and the other wave steepness. Analysis of pertinent datasets from a data buoy near the passage of Hurricane Matthew in 2016 indicates that CpU10 = -15 HsLp + 1.3. Here CpU10 is the wave age and HsLp is the wave steepness, where Cp is the phase speed of the peak wave, U10 is the wind speed at 10 m, Hs is the significant wave height, and Lp is the peak or dominant wave length. It is found that 87% of th [...]

by Christopher Lavers

Received: 23 November 2022;  Published: 12 June 2023;  doi: 10.21926/aeer.2302036

This paper reviews the growing importance of satellite imagery to provide Normalized Difference Vegetative Index (NDVI) maps, relevant to environmental land management assessment, in the context of resource and climate-related conflict based upon our own humanitarian project-related support. Near real-time space-based monitoring benefits land assessment, human rights observers, and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), in the presence of unstable regimes or socio-economic upheaval. Access to areas to validate clai [...]

by Úrsula Oswald-Spring

Received: 06 November 2022;  Published: 06 June 2023;  doi: 10.21926/aeer.2302035

The present article studies the policy, numbers, and costs of disaster risk management (DRM) in Mexico, a country highly exposed to climate change, due to two oceans warming up. The PEISOR methodology facilitates interrelating complex interactions and pressures between the natural and the societal system (P), where dangerous effects (E) occur in extreme events, such as floods, landslides, and drought. The impacts (I) of global warming, the pressure of historical poverty, and vulnerable regions were affected by the [...]

by Andreas Miles-Novelo  and Craig A. Anderson

Received: 30 August 2022;  Published: 24 May 2023;  doi: 10.21926/aeer.2302034

As the climate crisis has progressed, scientists have begun to ask, "How does a rapidly warming ecosystem impact human behavior?" As aggression scholars and non-professional environmentalists, it has become increasingly clear that the impact of the climate crisis, without intervention, will dramatically increase humans' exposure to risk factors known to cause aggressive and violent behavior. This article describes a model that explains the indirect and direct effects of the climate crisis on aggression and violence [...]

by George William Nyakairu  , Mariam Onize Usman  and Muhammad Ntale

Received: 24 February 2023;  Published: 24 May 2023;  doi: 10.21926/aeer.2302033

Developing adsorbents with appreciable morphology will create new approaches for better phosphate adsorption performance. This study aims to investigate the design of an adsorbent by impregnating silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) onto calcium oxide-activated carbon (CaO-AC). The Ag/CaO-AC nanocomposite was used as an adsorbent to remove phosphate. Batch adsorption studies were performed to evaluate the effects of adsorbent dose, initial phosphate concentration, contact time, and pH on removing phosphate from an aqueous [...]