Most downloaded environmental pollution articles elsevier. World soil day was established in 2002 by the international union of soil sciences iuss to celebrate the importance of soil and its vital contributions to human health and safety. Effect of crude oil pollution on some soil physical properties. The factors which disturb the biological balance of the soil and deteriorate the quality, texture, and mineral content are called soil pollutants. Ii, issue 2,april 2011 276 environmental pollution. In the past decade or two, scientists have become interested in. Soil contamination list of high impact articles ppts. Youre seeing our new journal sites and wed like your opinion, please send feedback. The farmers first deplete the soil by excessive, repeat planting and then try to replenish the resulting lessproductive soil by putting more and more nitrogenbased fertilizer on the land in an attempt to. Soil pollution types, effects, sources and control of soil pollution soil pollution soil pollution is defined as, contamination of soil by human and natural activities which may cause harmful effect on living organisms. The journal is being published seasonally 4 issues per year. Introduction pollution of the environment is one of the major effects of human technological advancement. Managing riparian ecosystems to control nonpoint pollution.
Remediation techniques for soil pollution have been studied in the aftermath of a. Soil pollution was in the beginning defined as the pollution of soil system where by noteworthy quantities of chemical or other substances, resulted in the turn down of its fertility or output with respect to the. Use of bioresources for remediation of soil pollution. The journal of soil and water conservation jswc is a multidisciplinary journal of natural resource conservation research, practice, policy, and perspectives. The impact factor measures the average number of citations received in a particular year by papers published in the. Learn more about its causes, effects and solutions. Impacts on human health over 200 years of industrialisation have caused soil contamination to be a widespread problem in europe. Riparian ecosystembig words and scientific jargon for the land farmers usually call bottomland or that wet area down by the creek.
Soil pollution causes, effects and what to do about it. The following is a list of the most cited articles based on citations published in the last three years, according to crossref. Crude oil, pollution, soil, physical properties, ecosystem i. Environmental impact assessment on soil pollution issue. Land pollution is when humans introduce harmful objects, chemicals or substances, directly or indirectly into the soil in a way that causes harm to other living things or destroys soil or. However, our waste products are full of chemicals that are not originally found in nature and lead to soil pollution. Soil pollution is caused by manmade, harmful chemicals penetrating the earth and causing deterioration.
Soil science society of america journal, the flagship journal of the sssa, publishes basic and applied soil research in soil chemistry, soil physics, soil pedology, and hydrology in agricultural, forest, wetlands. Environmental pollution and climatic change effects on natural vegetation, particularly in the tropics and subtropics, airplant soil interactions in polluted terrestrial ecosystems, physiologic, metabolic, structuralultrastructural markers of increased plant tolerance against air pollutants and other. Component % organic mineral matter 45 organic matter 05 soil water 25 soil air 25. International journal of pollution research gavin publishers. Use of bioresources for remediation of soil pollution sharmistha pal1, ashok k. The most downloaded articles from environmental pollution in the last 90 days. An international journal of environmental pollution. Environmental pollution welcomes high quality submissions on all aspects of environmental pollution and the mitigation measures related to ecosystem. This paper looks at the causes and distribution of soil pollution in china.
Full text full text is available as a scanned copy of the original print version. This includes chemical, physical and biological processes. Pollution, whenever we talk about pollution then the major things we get in our mind is water pollution and air pollution. Environmental pollution and climatic change effects on natural vegetation, particularly in the tropics and subtropics, airplantsoil interactions in polluted terrestrial ecosystems, physiologic, metabolic. This includes chemical, physical and biological processes affecting flora, fauna, water, air and soil in relation to environmental pollution. It first looks at the amount of organic and inorganic soil pollutants and their geographic distribution. Mark hodson, soil pollution and its impact on soil life 34 summary pollutants are generated by all sorts of human activities soil pollution is a wide spread problem pollutants have to be bioavailable to. Soil science society of america journal wiley online library. Soil pollution increase the salinity of the soil making it unfit for vegetation, thus making it useless and barren.
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