Air-quality research in India has predominantly focused on large metropolitan regions, leaving plateau-based Tier-II cities comparatively underexamined. This study assessed the spatio-temporal variability of air quality across five land-use zones in Ranchi, Jharkhand: industrial,...
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Research Article10.9734/ajopacs/2026/v14i3334
Microplastic contamination of agricultural soils has moved from a largely conceptual concern to an empirically documented component of terrestrial pollution. Agricultural plastic films, sewage sludge, compost and other organic amendments, irrigation water, atmospheric deposition,...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2026/v25i91025
This study evaluates differences in topsoil physicochemical properties among four techno-ecological settings in the North Karanpura Coalfield, Jharkhand, India: an active opencast mining site (Amrapali), a coal-logistics zone on reclaimed land (Piparwar village), a mining-periphe...
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Research Article10.9734/arja/2026/v19i4931