Today, environment pollution control is a matter of concern, everybody is willing to make a product that should be ecofriendly. Nowadays, water resources are full of untreated waste materials, discharge of hazardous and toxic dyes coming from textile and other chemical industries. These environmental hazards are difficult to remove by commercial water treatment plans, thus we need something that would present an efficient means for removal of these hazards. In this research paper, we have synthesize silver nanoparticle in a green way by using aqueous extract of Allium cepa (onion), and further these silver nanoparticle were tested for the catalytic degradation of various dyes by UV/Visible spectroscopy and silver nanoparticle showed reduction in dyes intensity after a particular period of incubation time. SEM and TEM, Particle size and Zeta potential analysis was done to analyze the surface morphology, particle size range and stability of the silver nanoparticle. Greenly synthesized silver nanoparticle was found to be spherical in shape, having particle size value ranged from 50 to 100 nm with a zeta potential value of ?29 mV. An EDX spectroscopy method was used to confirm the presence of silver nanoparticle in the synthesized material. An X-ray crystallography was done to ensure the crystallinity of the silver nanoparticle. Further an ATR-FTIR was performed to confirm the capping of the silver nanoparticle with the phenolic group of the onion. All these study emphasized that silver nanoparticle capped with onion (AgNPs@Ac) is the excellent catalyst for the reduction of hazardous and toxic dyes as well as they serve best purpose of the eco-friendly approach. 相似文献
The aspirations, motivations and choices of individual European citizens are a major driver of the future of global, European and local land use. However, until now no land use study has explicitly attempted to find out how the general public wants to live in the future. This paper forms a first attempt to survey European citizens to understand their desired future lives in relation to consequences for European land use. We used a crowdsourcing experiment to elicit visions from young Europeans about their lives in 2040. Participants completed a graphic novel around carefully selected questions, allowing them to create a story of their imagined future lives in pictures. The methodology worked well, and the sample seemed reasonably representative albeit skewed towards an educated population. In total, 1131 responses from 29 countries were received. Results show a strong desire for change, and for more sustainable lifestyles. There is desire for local and ecologically friendly food production, to eat less meat, to have access to green infrastructure and the ability to cycle to work. However, international travel remains popular, and the desire for extensive food production and owning detached houses with gardens will likely result in complex land use trade-offs. Future work could focus more specifically on quantifying these trade-offs and inform respondents about the consequences of their lifestyle choices. This was a first attempt to use crowdsourcing to understand citizen visions for their lives in the future, and our lessons learned will help future studies improve representativeness and increase responses.
Major benefits were weighed against major costs associated with recent saltcedar control efforts along the Middle Pecos River,
New Mexico. The area of study was restricted to both sides of the channel and excluded tributaries along the 370 km between
Sumner and Brantley dams. Direct costs (helicopter spraying, dead tree removal, and revegetation) within the study area were
estimated to be $2.2 million but possibly rising to $6.4 million with the adoption of an aggressive revegetation program.
Indirect costs associated with increased potential for erosion and reservoir sedimentation would raise the costs due to increased
evaporation from more extensive shallows in the Pecos River as it enters Brantley Reservoir. Actions such as dredging are
unlikely given the conservative amount of sediment calculated (about 1% of the reservoir pool). The potential for water salvage
was identified as the only tangible benefit likely to be realized under the current control strategy. Estimates of evapotranspiration
(ET) using Landsat TM data allowed estimation of potential water salvage as the difference in ET before and after treatment,
an amount totaling 7.41 million m3 (6010 acre-ft) per year. Previous saltcedar control efforts of roughly the same magnitude found that salvaged ET recharged
groundwater and no additional flows were realized within the river. Thus, the value of this recharge is probably less than
the lowest value quoted for actual in-channel flow, and estimated to be < $63,000 per year. Though couched in terms of costs
and benefits, this paper is focused on what can be considered the key trade-off under a complete eradication strategy: water
salvage vs. erosion and sedimentation. It differs from previous efforts by focusing on evaluating the impacts of actual control
efforts within a specific system. Total costs (direct plus potential indirect) far outweighed benefits in this simple comparison
and are expected to be ongoing. Problems induced by saltcedar control may permanently reduce reservoir capacity and increase
reservoir evaporation rates, which could further deplete supplies on this water short system. These potential negative consequences
highlight that such costs and benefits need to be considered before initiating extensive saltcedar control programs on river
systems of the western United States. 相似文献
Global climate change, along with continued habitat loss and fragmentation, is now recognized as being a major threat to future
biodiversity. There is a very real threat to species, arising from the need to shift their ranges in the future to track regions
of suitable climate. The Important Bird Area (IBA) network is a series of sites designed to conserve avian diversity in the
face of current threats from factors such as habitat loss and fragmentation. However, in common with other networks, the IBA
network is based on the assumption that the climate will remain unchanged in the future. In this article, we provide a method
to simulate the occurrence of species of conservation concern in protected areas, which could be used as a first-step approach
to assess the potential impacts of climate change upon such species in protected areas. We use species-climate response surface
models to relate the occurrence of 12 biome-restricted African species to climate data at a coarse (quarter degree-degree
latitude-longitude) resolution and then intersect the grid model output with IBA outlines to simulate the occurrence of the
species in South African IBAs. Our results demonstrate that this relatively simple technique provides good simulations of
current species' occurrence in protected areas. We then use basic habitat data for IBAs along with habitat preference data
for the species to reduce over-prediction and further improve predictive ability. This approach can be used with future climate
change scenarios to highlight vulnerable species in IBAs in the future and allow practical recommendations to be made to enhance
the IBA network and minimize the predicted impacts of climate change. 相似文献
Agriculture P management practices elevate the level of inorganic phosphates in soil that results in phosphorous (P) seepage into water-bodies. This is one of the key factors that have accelerated the menace of eutrophication. Phytic acid (phytate)-P-rich plant metabolite is infamous for its anti-nutrient activity and regularly oozing in to environment though discharge of mono-gastric animals. That has amplified the magnitudes of eutrophication. In this work, for catalysis of phytate-P, the metal-organic framework fabricated towards metal oxides (Fe3O4) and phytase in highly ordered microcosms of silica was employed. The synthesized framework was characterized through transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and nitrogen isotherm analysis. Average pore diameter of synthesized bisect oval shaped structures was measured around ≈200 nm. Herein, phytase and Fe3O4 nanoparticles were loaded to the cavities of microcosms through glutaraldehyde-mediated crosslinking. Whereas Fe3O4 nanoparticles act as nano-absorbents that adsorb P liberated from phytase-mediated catalysis of phytate. Kinetic analysis of free and loaded phytase has shown relatively small reduction in catalytic efficiency. These loaded microcosms have removed 60–80% of phytate-phosphate. The optimized process has reduced the growth of photoautotrophs by 50%. Additionally the magnet-assisted separation of loaded microcosms eased the reapplication of loaded microcosms tested for six independent instances. The primary studies conducted to evaluate the geno-toxicity of loaded microcosms have not shown any harmful effect on the process like cell division and seed germination. The efficacy of this method has evaluated towards on-field testing in Changa (Gujarat, India) lake.
There has been much recent interest in the concept of rewilding as a tool for nature conservation, but also confusion over the idea, which has limited its utility. We developed a unifying definition and 10 guiding principles for rewilding through a survey of 59 rewilding experts, a summary of key organizations’ rewilding visions, and workshops involving over 100 participants from around the world. The guiding principles convey that rewilding exits on a continuum of scale, connectivity, and level of human influence and aims to restore ecosystem structure and functions to achieve a self-sustaining autonomous nature. These principles clarify the concept of rewilding and improve its effectiveness as a tool to achieve global conservation targets, including those of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration and post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. Finally, we suggest differences in rewilding perspectives lie largely in the extent to which it is seen as achievable and in specific interventions. An understanding of the context of rewilding projects is the key to success, and careful site-specific interpretations will help achieve the aims of rewilding. 相似文献