Lakes across India face sustained pressure from domestic effluent discharge, siltation and unplanned catchment development, and the physico-chemical condition of such lakes is widely reported to shape the structure of their aquatic macrophyte communities. This paper illustrates a...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2026/v16i95633
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
Water quality assessment is fundamental to sustainable water resource management and the protection of public health. This study evaluated physicochemical, microbiological, and heavy-metal parameters across six surface water bodies (Ranchi Lake, Kanke Dam, Dhurwa Dam, Patratu Dam...
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Research Article10.9734/ajee/2026/v25i8997
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