Soil contamination is one of the most important environmental problems around the world.
The transfer of organic contaminants and heavy metals to the food chain is a major threat to …

Bioremediation uses microbial metabolism in the presence of optimum environmental
conditions and sufficient nutrients to breakdown contaminants notably petroleum …

Heavy metal pollution is one of the major environmental concerns worldwide. Toxic heavy
metals when untreated get accumulated in environment and can pose severe threats to …

Hundreds of millions of litres of petroleum enter the environment from both natural and
anthropogenic sources every year. The input from natural marine oil seeps alone would be …

Sole-carbon-source tests (Biolog), designed to identify bacteria, have become very popular
for metabolically fingerprinting soil microbial communities, despite disadvantages …

Microbial community composition and diversity at a diesel-contaminated railway site were
investigated by pyrosequencing of bacterial and archaeal 16S rRNA gene fragments to …

Oil spillage is one of the most common pollutants which brings greater economic loss and
damage to the environment. The intensity and amount of the damage may vary depending …

Diagnosis of the risk of soil pollution and the performance of measures for the recovery of
contaminated soil requires proper monitoring of the extent of soil function damage and its …

We investigated the influence of three factors—diesel oil concentration [2500, 5000, 10,000,
20,000 mg total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH) kg− 1 soil], biostimulation (unfertilized …

Soil bacterial population dynamics were examined in several crude-oil-contaminated soils to
identify those organisms associated with alkane degradation and to assess patterns in …