Over the past few decades, the rapid development of agriculture and industries has resulted
in contamination of the environment by diverse pollutants, including heavy metals …

Indiscriminate disposal of wastes on landfills has led to increase in heavy metal
contamination in landfill soils. However, the ability of the indigenous microorganisms to …

The importance of natural ecosystem processes is often overlooked in urban areas. Green
Infrastructure (GI) features have been constructed in urban areas as elements to capture and …

Soil microbial communities play an important role in the biodegradation of different
petroleum derivates, including hydrocarbons. Also other biological factors such as enzyme …

The present work consisted of evaluating and comparing, at bench scale, the
biodeterioration processes of diesel oil, soy biodiesel (B100 soy), beef tallow biodiesel …

This study is aimed at isolating bacterial species that inhabit diesel contaminated soil and
also screened these isolates for the ability to be used for remediating diesel contaminated …

Present study attempts in revealing taxonomic and functional diversity of microorganism
from petroleum muck using metagenomics approach. Using Ion Torrent Personal Genome …

Hydrocarbon degrading bacteria were isolated from the petrol contaminated soil of Karachi
to determine their biodegradation capabilities of aromatic hydrocarbons such as xylene …

Microorganisms are the important factors in the degradation of the toxic substances in our
environment. Diesel oil is one of the complex mixtures which cannot be easily degraded …

The hydrocarbon containing oils like crude oil, petrol, diesel etc., causes environmental
pollution. The oil contaminated environment rich in microbial community adapted for utilizing …