Mercury pollution has emerged as a major problem in industrialized zones and presents a
serious threat to environment and health of local communities. Effectiveness and wide …

The world is witnessing various pollutants in the environment since the last few decades that
threaten human life. The biological responses to various pollutants show variations as the …

Deep-sea bacteria when grown in normal environmental conditions get morphologically and
genetically adapted to resist the provided culture conditions for their survival, making them a …

Heavy metals pollution represents an important environmental problem. One of these metals
is mercury. The aim of this research was isolating bacteria highly resistant to mercury from …

Constructed wetlands (CWs) are known to be effective for treating waste streams, and pilot-
scale CWs are useful for assessing the impact of pollutants and their remediation. However …

Aims To assess the impact of winery wastewater (WW) on biological sand filter (BSF)
bacterial community structures, and to evaluate whether BSFs can constitute alternative and …

Background In the United States, an estimated 14,748 wastewater treatment plants
(WWTPs) provide wastewater collection, treatment, and disposal service to more than 230 …

Notwithstanding, the severe environmental conditions, deserts harbour a high diversity of
adapted micro‐organisms. In such oligotrophic environments, soil physicochemical …

Escherichia coli may harbor genetic mercury resistance markers which makes this bacterial
species a promising alternative for bioremediation processes. The objective of this study …

The environmental pollutions generated by human activities are important concerns that
environmental risk assessment procedures have the purpose to evaluate and mitigate the …