Abrupt ecosystem disruption is evident on the Northern Channel Islands at the Ållerød Younger Dryas boundary with the onset of biomass burning and resulting mass sediment wasting of the landscape.
For this reason its determination and speciation is of great interest in all environmental compartments, such as soil, airborne particulate matter and dust, sediment, water, waste, air and biological samples [4 10].
These results suggest that, with an appropriate mixture design, contaminated sediment and waste materials are useful resources for producing non-load-bearing masonry units or fill materials for construction uses.
Many children and families here are collecting water for drinking and cooking from a small stream that is filled with sediment and waste, exposing them to water-borne illnesses.
The removal of PAHs from soils, sediments and waste water has attracted attention of scientists and engineers for several decades.
Strains naturally present in soils, sea water, sediments and waste waters have inherent abilities to degrade hydrocarbons such as alkanes (short and medium chain) and aromatic compounds (biphenyl and dibenzofuran).
Background bacteria are associated with water pollution because of contamination by soil, sediment, fecal wastes and/or sewage.
Anammox bacteria contain a unique class of lipids, called ladderane lipids and here we present a novel method to detect viable anammox bacteria in sediments and waste water treatment plants based on the use of a ladderane lipid biomarker.
Reporter gene assays were largely used to analyse samples such as harbour sediment and wasted waters [ 35, 36], but only few studies were conducted to assess the hormonal activity of biological tissues [ 37– 37].
