Herrera-Navarrete, Ricardo Arellano-Wences, Hilda Janet Colín-Cruz, Arturo Sampedro-Rosas, María Laura Rosas-Acevedo, José Luis Rodríguez-Herrera, América Libertad
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Water, Air, & Soil Pollution
Municipal wastewater treatment plants (MWWTPs) are considered essential to protect human health and aquatic systems. However, several studies in the scientific field have identified adverse environmental effects in these treatment units that involve challenges in the water industry. Therefore, this work has the following objectives: (1) to understa...
Nagahage, Isura Sumeda Priyadarshana Nagahage, Ekanayaka Achchillage Ayesha D... Fujino, Takeshi
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Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Systems that are made of several low-cost gas sensors with automatic gas sampling may have the potential to serve as reliable fast methane analyzers. However, there is a lack of reports about such types of systems evaluated under field conditions. Here, we developed a continuous methane monitoring system with automated gas sampling unit using low-c...
Yadav, Shailendra Kumar Sharma, Raghav Kumar, Sankalp Agarwal, Aviral Mohan, Vignesh Mishra, Rajeev Kumar Shukla, Ankita
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Arabian Journal of Geosciences
Until 31 May 2020, more than six million confirm COVID-19 cases had been reported worldwide. Lockdown has resulted in significant air quality improvement, especially in urban regions. The lockdown has acted as a natural experiment empowering researchers, policymakers, and governing bodies. The present study focuses on quantifying and analysing the ...
Sung, Wen-Tsai Hsiao, Sung-Jung
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EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
With rapidly changing technology, people have more and more requirements for thermal comforts regarding indoor temperature, humidity, and wind speed, and pay more attention to air quality. Indoor air quality has serious effects on the elderly, children, and those with respiratory allergies. Based on the architecture of the Internet of Things smart ...
Al-Abadleh, Hind A Lysy, Martin Neil, Lucas Patel, Priyesh Mohammed, Wisam Khalaf, Yara
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Journal of hazardous materials
Preliminary analyses of satellite measurements from around the world showed drops in nitrogen dioxide (NO2) coinciding with lockdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Several studies found that these drops correlated with local decreases in transportation and/or industry. None of these studies, however, has rigorously quantified the statistical signif...
Rashid, Rukhsana Chong, Felisha Islam, Shahid Bryant, Maria McEachan, Rosemary R. C.
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BMC Public Health
BackgroundPoor air quality is the one of the biggest causes of early death and illness across the lifespan. In the UK, 28 local authorities with illegal pollution levels have been mandated by the Government to develop plans to rapidly reduce pollution to legal limits. These plans include consideration of implementing one of four of charging 'Clean ...
Filonchyk, Mikalai Hurynovich, Volha Yan, Haowen
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Environmental research
The first case of COVID-19 in Poland was registered on 4 March 2020. Governmental measures significantly restricted social and economic activities. This study investigates the impact on air quality resulting from the preventive measures taken by the government to manage Covid-19. The study was carried out with use of aerosol optical depth (AOD) ret...
Lou, Baowen Barbieri, Diego Maria Passavanti, Marco Hui, Cang Gupta, Akshay Hoff, Inge Lessa, Daniela Antunes Sikka, Gaurav Chang, Kevin Fang, Kevin
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Ambio
As largely documented in the literature, the stark restrictions enforced worldwide in 2020 to curb the COVID-19 pandemic also curtailed the production of air pollutants to some extent. This study investigates the perception of the air pollution as assessed by individuals located in ten countries: Australia, Brazil, China, Ghana, India, Iran, Italy,...
Tauqir, Aisha Kashif, Sadaf
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Modeling Earth Systems and Environment
This paper aims to examine the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on the air quality of Lahore city of Pakistan for the period 26th February, 2020 to 31st August, 2020. The study employs asymmetrical Granger causality tests for analyzing the effects of COVID-19 cases and deaths on particulate matter (PM2.5) emissions in the city. The results show posi...
Sharma, Gagan Deep Tiwari, Aviral Kumar Jain, Mansi Yadav, Anshita Srivastava, Mrinalini
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Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews
COVID-19 has slowed global economic growth and consequently impacted the environment as well. Parallelly, the environment also influences the transmission of this novel coronavirus through various factors. Every nation deals with varied population density and size; air quality and pollutants; the nature of land and water, which significantly impact...
