Sentence examples for petroleum pollution from inspiring English sources

The information provided by this study enhances our understanding of the effects of petroleum pollution on plant-microbe interactions and the roles of these interactions in the phytoremediation of petroleum-polluted soil.

The report, titled "Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta," noted that while oil business in the region had generated about $600 billion during the past 50 years, the majority of the 31 million people living in the area remained pitifully impoverished.

This paper reached a conclusion that the petroleum contaminants in Taihu Lake mainly derived from petroleum pollution caused by human activities as indicated by OEP, bimodal distribution, CPI, Pr/Ph ratio, the LMW/HMW ratio and other evaluation indices for sources of n-alkanes and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).

According to the sources apportionment of n-alkanes and PAHs, it can be concluded that the n-alkanes pollution was mainly the result of human pollution and the PAHs contamination in Taihu Lake was the result of both petroleum pollution and combustion.

Amnesty International's report Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta released in June 2009 grimly inventories the environmental disaster caused by 1.5 million tons of spilled oil, describing the results of the slick alliance between international oil companies and the Nigerian state as a "human rights tragedy".

Due to the considerable impact of petroleum pollution on plants, soil properties, and microbes [11], [18] [20], we hypothesized that petroleum pollution will negatively impact plant microbe interactions.

Use of bio-binder could address depletion of petroleum oil, pollution from residue waste, greenhouse gases emissions, and development of sustainable asphalt pavement that is both economically and environmentally friendly.

Our previous work has shown that P. australis has high potential for phytoremediation of petroleum-pollution at Shengli Oilfield, which removed TPH ( = 8.0 g kg−1) in soil by ∼75% compared to unplanted soils (30.3%) after one growing season [44].

The CPI values of n-alkanes in Taihu Lake water ranged from 0.68 to 1.27, indicating that the anthropogenic activities is the major causes of petroleum hydrocarbon pollution in Taihu Lake.

But to the extent that we have an "energy crisis," it is not in our dependence on foreign sources, or even in the world's dwindling supply of petroleum or the pollution of fossil fuels.

PHA is expected to solve some environmental problems such as, excess emission of carbon dioxide, depletion of petroleum and environment pollution by waste plastics.