Biochar has been increasingly used as a filter medium in engineered low impact
development systems (eg, bioretention systems) for decontamination of urban stormwater …

Nitrogen is a requisite and highly demanded element for living organisms on Earth.
However, increasing human activities have greatly altered the global nitrogen cycle …

Urbanization is one of the biggest social transformations of modern time, driving and driven
by multiple social, economic, and environmental processes. The impacts of urbanization on …

Nitrate pollution is of considerable global concern as a threat to human health and aquatic
ecosystems. Nowadays, δ 15 N/δ 18 O-NO 3− combined with a Bayesian-based SIAR model …

Nutrients export from residential catchments contributes to water quality impairment in urban
water bodies. We investigated the concentrations, transport mechanisms, and sources of …

Quantitative identification of nitrate (NO 3−-N) sources is critical to the control of nonpoint
source nitrogen pollution in an agricultural watershed. Combined with water quality …

Abstract Nitrate (NO 3−) contamination in groundwater is an environmental problem
worldwide. Partitioning the pollution into its sources is the key for effective controls. In this …

Small-scale water sources serving villages and towns are the main source of drinking water
in rural areas. Compared to centralized water sources, rural water sources are less …

Nearly all ecosystems host diverse microbiomes that support vital ecosystem processes. At
the same time, these ecosystems and their microbiomes are increasingly altered by human …

Abstract The Kabul urban aquifer (Afghanistan), which is the main source of drinking water
for Kabul city's inhabitants, is highly vulnerable to anthropogenic pollution. In this study, the …